Quotes About Ambition

You never know what motivates you.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

A will finds a way.

I feel like I'm a good motivator; I'm very determined.

Money's important, but it isn't a motivator for me.

Henry Cejudo is a motivator.

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

Do I think anything I ever do will be as big as Motley Crue? It's impossible.

I did a deal with my parents to take a year out before university at the end of 1992 to try and forge a career in motor sport. I still haven't gone. I left school at 18 and that was it.

People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

La competencia ha sido y será siempre problemática para aquellos que tienen que competir. FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and only uses half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men will know. - Thomas Wolfe

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

The cause of all this was the pursuit of power driven by greed and ambition, leading in turn to the passions of the party rivalries thus established. The dominant men on each side in the various cities employed fine-sounding terms, claiming espousal either of democratic rights for all or of a conservative aristocracy, but the public whose interests they professed to serve were in fact their ultimate prize

If one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it. -p162

had almost said of mankind.

Eliza has the sky in her eyes and I've always wanted to touch the goddamn sky.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today. And that's how I look at my life. I will be a better golfer, I will be a better person, I will be a better father, I will be a better husband, I will be a better friend. That's the beauty of tomorrow.

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!