Quotes About Ambition

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish.

This desire will enable you to seize every opportunity and create the life you want to live.

It's one thing to know "The Secret" or take whatever life-affirming steps you've read about in order to bring positivity into your life, but it's something else altogether to actually create opportunities for yourself. You're definitely not going to find them reading a book.

Keep going until you hit the finish line!" It's "Keep failing until you accidentally no longer fail." That's persistence. NOT

In that Facebook movie (you know, the Justin Timberlake vehicle), JT says, "A million's not cool. A BILLION is cool." Well, actually JT, very often a million is pretty cool.

people are very, very busy walking around you, paying with the currency of unhappiness now in order to reach their glorious futures someday…maybe.

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses.

Is this just a dream? Can life be lived so large? Have I been able to live life so large? To live to my fullest potential?

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses. All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses. I repeat: this is all it takes.

At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer. You either define the temperature of the people around you and help them achieve their goals and dreams, or you simply do as you're told and be a follower and never inspire. How do you become the thermostat?

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You are not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!

How can one... dream of power in any other terms than in the symbols of power?

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus expected to be set forever.... You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.

People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior

And yet power is real, and many things, including, very often, love, cannot be achieved without it.

Why would I want to poison you? Then I have no job and I have only just found out that I want to live.

You've come full circle. Here you are again, with it all to do all over again, and you must decide all over again whether you want to be famous or whether you want to write. And the two things, in spite of all the evidence, have nothing whatever in common.

How can one, however, dream of power in any other terms than in the symbols of power?