Quotes About Ambition

Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want."

Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want."

Live life with a purpose and live it full out."

Live your vision and demand your success."

The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow."

Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!"

Your dream is a reality that is just waiting for you to materialize it!"

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

We are a society that sheds spouses and takes on new lovers faster than a raja can work through his harem. We dissolve entire families on a whimsy of lust. We pursue bald ambition as if it were the true religion, leaving our children to come home to empty houses, to fix their own meals, to cope with the crippling insecurities of adolescence, while we engage in an endless chase after the grail of possessions. And we have the audacity to wonder who killed the innocence of childhood.

You rarely get any better than what you aim for. Therefore, be smart, be patient, and aim high.

So act boldly, as if it's impossible to fail. If you keep adding fuel to your desire, you will reach the point of knowing that you'll never quit, and ultimate success will be nothing more than a matter of time.

If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.

People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

All contests whether political or not, boil down to several simple truths! Who are you? And what do you want? And how much are you willing to pay for what you want?

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

He pulled the shade, climbed into bed, thought of the Replacements, a band from his hometown singing about needing a job and needing a girl. Rodney needed both. But he needed the job to get the girl. And he needed ambition to get either.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

a goal without a plan is no more than a cloud,

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

Keep going until it seems like a bad idea, then go a little further.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!