Quotes About Ambition

Rosie: I know, I'm working on it but I can't quit until I get another job and that's proving to be rather difficult. Apparently no one really cares about whether or not you work as a secretary in a paper-clip factory. Ruby: Hmm… how odd… And it sounds so glamorous, you would think… Honestly, some people… Ahern, Cecelia (2005-02-01). Love, Rosie (p. 87). Hachette Books. Kindle Edition.

He wanted to prove to the world that he was able to achieve something, that he could stand out from the crowd even when he felt the world was telling him he couldn't.

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.

Don't ever let anyone tell you should be happy with what you have. There's always more, and there's no reason you shouldn't have it all.

We'd be nowhere without ambition.

So what's your major? Have you figured it out yet? Yeah, biology. I'm hoping to go to med school. How about you? Elementary education. She could have told me she was majoring in shit-eating with a minor in injecting guys with AIDS blood while they slept, and I would have thought it was the greatest, most noble thing in the world.

Realizing your potential is gone—that's pretty bad. But the worst thing is being okay with that.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,.

Obstacles are given us in order to make our desire even stronger. The more a thing is hidden from man, the more he desires it, and the greater the chance he will one day discover it.

He should have had more faith in himself rather than give in to his weaker qualities, in particular his overeagerness to please and aversion to conflict and a lifelong infatuation with hope, which had him dreaming more than doing

My father like all successful immigrants before him gently and not so gently exploited his own. This is way I learn business, this is way they learn business.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.

Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the courage and ambition to go for it.

Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.

I'm a grounded lad, and I just look forward to see what's going to happen in the future.

I was quite small as a lad compared to everyone else so I didn't stand a chance at Southampton. They told me one day that they weren't interested so I moved on. I just went away and enjoyed my football.

I want the fans to see this lad means business. I just need to get that chance.

Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

A woman who wants to go places needs to bring her own ladder.

You're always working to try and climb that ladder.