Quotes About Ambition

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, prioritize our desires, and accept less than the moon.

you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

What I want now is what I've always wanted.

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.

all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.

You know what your potential was when you were young: you could have done anything! But instead of doing anything, you did nothing.

Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness...Many of us have convinced ourselves that compromise is necessary to achieve our goals, that all of our goals are not attainable so we should eliminate the extraneous, proritize our desires, and accept less than the moon. But Denny refused to yield to that idea. He wanted his daughter and he wanted his racing career and he refused to give up one for the other.

A race car driver must be very selfish. It is a cold truth: even his family must came second to the race.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

You could wish to travel to the sky with a jump, but, unless your legs were mountains or you had a map charting where the high blue reached close, no words could take you there, and no king or queen could, even if willing, finance such a leap.

Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.

You can't imagine an actor ever becoming president of the United States, for example," which was true. We couldn't.

you should be," she said. "Look what happened to Julius Caesar when he underestimated those around him." So we went out to the

Gary D. Schmidt

People are not plants. They are not fixed to any roots or dependent on them. People are mobile and free to move far from their beginnings—far away, if that satisfies them—far upward, if they have the ambition and ability.

Big is bad is a lie. It's quite possibly the worst lie of all, for if you fear big success, you'll either avoid it or sabotage your efforts to achieve it.

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.

You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." —General George S. Patton

When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up.

only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.

Don't fear big. Fear mediocrity. Fear waste. Fear the lack of living to your fullest

Thinking big is essential to extraordinary results. Success requires action, and action requires thought. But here's the catch—the only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with. Make this connection, and the importance of how big you think begins to sink in.