Quotes About Ambition

I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here.

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.

We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. John Roebling. Aided by his wife, and then his son. He died during construction. But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. I wanted to leave something like that behind. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but I felt like I had taken the first steps

I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them.

ARE THOSE FRIGHTENING THINGS THAT APPEAR WHEN WE TAKE OUR MIND OFF OUR GOALS; DREAMS ARE ONLY DREAMS UNTIL YOU WAKE UP AND MAKE THEM REAL; THINGS I HAVE TO DO TODAY: 1) BREATHE IN 2) BREATHE OUT.

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people—younger people— are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting paid and winning scholarships and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

There's so much more for me to be doing. I should be a success and I'm not and other people - younger people - are.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time. I'll tell you how, soldier. It's because you're not ambitious, you're just lazy

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

If you don't have a dream, you can't have a dream come true

Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Fear not, till Birnam wood / Do come to Dunsinane").

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

But I couldn't commit to the time. I needed to resuscitate my career.

It was a completely pointless ambition, with no practical application whatsoever. But if you sit the average male down in front of anything halfway intriguing and explain to him that it has a system of rankings that he can get better at over time, he'll become obsessed. Hence the popularity of video games, martial arts, Dungeons and Dragons, and the seduction community. I

A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex.

If you're not being criticized, you're probably not doing anything exceptional.