Quotes About Ambition

There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

My American Dream has always been simple, and it's one I encourage you to adopt as your own: Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

California, Royce noted, was a promise, but it was also a struggle for redemption in the face of failure.

Raising a mere $15,800 in cash, the Big Four, as history would know them, formed an enterprise that over the next decades would earn them $200 million in profits.

Leadership is when you take a step into the darkness even when you cant see the stairs

you shouldn't be getting out of bed every day because you have to go to work, you should be working at something that makes you want to get out of bed.

If you were rich, and you were a dude, it really felt like if you just followed a certain number of steps, you could do pretty much whatever you wanted.

He would teach himself to dislike what he actually liked, to approve of what he did not totally understand, in the hopes that he would come out the other side with something that resembled inspiration, something that would make him more famous than Chris Burden or even Hobart Waxman.

I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful things.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?

These cables will fail eventually, these stones will fall—but not the dream of crossing the mist, the dream of connection. Now that we know it can happen, it will always be here.

A well paid garbage man smells of success.

When you make a plan to merge your real-life goals with your money, you may discover you have to overcome yourself more than anyone or anything else.

There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get.

I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Most of us are so focused on the day-to-day struggles of life that we lose track of our long term goals. But then one day we look in the mirror and think, 'Who the hell is that?

Fear of failure is an insidious thing. Leads people to pretend they never wanted a medal in the first place.