Quotes About Ambition

The more she got, the more she wanted, the more afraid she was of losing it, and the harder she worked.

Who you mom is and how she lives her life isn't a reflection of you. You can make your own choices. And there's nothing for you to be ashamed of. But you'll have to dream big, Tully.

She used to think that success was like gold, worth sifting through mud for, and that love would always be there, waiting somehow on the riverbanks for her when she was done panning. She couldn't imagine now why she'd thought that, given her background. She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular, powerful you? No one ever talked about that.

Sometimes life kicks the shit out of you; that's all. It's like the Stones said: You can't always get what you want.

God help anyone who tries to stop her.

something you wish you'd

But what if that was exactly what you wanted: everything?

Instead, she was afraid. Yes, they'd be rich. Maybe even powerful. But at what cost?

No había sido consciente de lo mucho que había necesitado un sueño, pero este la había transformado: ya no era la pobre Tully, huérfana y abandonada, sino una joven decidida a comerse el mundo. La meta restaba importancia a la historia de su vida, le daba algo a lo que aspirar, a lo que aferrarse.

My Dad was sad that he saw us working so hard on something that was destined to fail.

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Basketball Rule #3 Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined my their limitations of life. The sky is your limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun, and you will shine.

Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.

We all have what it takes to do exactly what we want to do in life, no matter what anyone else says. If someone tells you, "You can't do this because you are [fill in the blank]," I say embrace the challenge. Wear it like a new pair of Converse or Jordans. Meet it head-on.

Never let anyone lower your goals. Others' expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life.

Basketball rule #3 Never let anyone lower your goals Other's expectations of you are determined by their limitations of life. The sky is the limit, sons. Always shoot for the sun And you _will_ shine.

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

This is the target. Hamal Kattan. He doesn't look like much