Quotes About Ambition

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Money isn't everything, but the lack of money isn't anything.

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land.

She'd learned now that the only way to write a list was to finish with something you actually wanted to do.

The world of academia was like a fourteenth-century Florence, riven with internecine strife, internal politics and wordless betrayal.

London eats up pretty girls, you know...

There's no final resting place — short of death — where you can stop having to earn what you want.

One person devotes his life to helping the poor. Another one lies and steals. Still another person tries to create better products and services for which he hopes to be paid handsomely. One woman devotes herself to her husband and children. Another seeks a career as a singer. In every case, the basic motivation has been the same. Each person is doing what he believes will bring him happiness. What varies between them is the means each has chosen to gain his happiness.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

He who chooses the beggining of the road chooses the place it leads to

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to

No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.

Well, I wouldn't say I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Politics sure is the ruination of many a good man.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.