Quotes About Ambition

Nothing stands between us and success but our will to win.

We all want to win. Every athlete wants to succeed. But the ones who do are those who separate wanting from being willing to make the sacrifice that winning demands.

Only climbers get to the top.

You can't buy motivation. You can't obtain it from someone else. "Motivation is something nobody else can give you," Joe DiMaggio said. "Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you, and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Be the dream. —JOHN CHANEY

Act as if you're going to have a great future? Set your goals. Do the work.

Adversity Quotient author Paul Stoltz compares success with a mountain. Only climbers get to the top. The campers, those who get part of the way up and decide to stay where they are, will never feel as alive or as proud as the climbers. As the philosopher said, it takes courage to grow up and to achieve your full potential.

To achieve anything you want in life you must first start by getting out of your own way.

Accept your present state. Create your desired state. Take action through goal setting.

Goals must be high enough to excite you, yet not so high that you cannot vividly imagine them. Goals must be attainable, but just out of reach for now.

myself. It allows me to "Act as if" I am the greatest version of myself, by pushing my boundaries.

Make sure you write out your goals each and every night, and then read them throughout the day. You will find that you automatically start to focus on these, and will be amazed how you automatically start to take more action towards achieving them. They say that success breeds success, but it also leads to being more charismatic.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us." - Jim Rohn

Once you realize that the goals you have set yourself are possible, you will become addicted to achieving them and your entire mindset will change. No longer will you be a shy, quiet person living in the shadows of life. No longer will you lack direction, motivation and drive. Instead you will find you are suddenly more confident, and happy to take on any challenge. These are both important character traits of charismatic people.

Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Our dreams are meant to come true, you know. What would be the purpose of dreaming if we could not fulfill our dreams?

Glory is an empty plate to feed from.

Persistent, Mike thought. Mark of those who succeed. Indeed, it was the mark of something, but not success. It was refusing to hear "no," a clear signal of trouble in any context. Forty