Quotes About Ambition

People always ask me "Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?" To them I always say Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is it a fire that burns you up inside? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming With that one thing on your mind? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Cause if you want it all You've got to lay it all out on the line

How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? Are you eating, sleeping, dreaming with that one thing on your mind? How bad do you want it? How bad do you need it? 'Cause if you want it you gotta lay it all out on the line.

Life presents itself first and foremost as a task. We take no pleasure in it except when we are striving after something.

It was far from good enough for de Valera, Brugha and Stack.

Unlike de Valera whose talent lay in getting and holding power, Collins asked himself the question, 'All this for what?', and tried to provide the answers.

semihippie sorta-kinda-artists who cobble together a living one way or another." I bristled a touch. "I'm a sorta-kinda-artist, you know." "Really? You don't strike me as a sorta-kinda woman, Bekah. Seems like you'd go all out.

you think it's great, or at least important, or at least the best you can do, or at least the only thing you can do? You can't paint for the judgment of the future. I

His [Luke]letter went something like this: "Dear Mr President, Thank you for introducing me to the Hall of Famers and for showing me the Oval Office. I think if I work really hard I will have a chance for both." The next time I saw the president I told him about my son's ambitious plans. His response was beautiful: "Never get between a boy and his dreams

Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more.

Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what's next. And then you go for even more.

In anything you do, it takes no talent to work hard. You just have to want to do it.

I'm not telling you to love it. I'm telling you to crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.

People who don't pursue their own dreams probably won't encourage you to pursue yours;

Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better.

People who preach inner drive are dreamers with a lot of ideas and a lot of talk, and zero production.

He played a near-perfect game, but to him, not perfect enough.

Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else.

Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you're willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it.

You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What's stopping you?

From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level; you're not going down to theirs. You're not competing with anyone else, ever again. They're going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.

Every accomplishment is just a stepping-stone to the next challenge; as soon as they've hit their target, they're already stalking their next conquest.

Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams . . . they're waiting for you to just let go.

Do you truly want to get even with everyone, or do you really want to get ahead of them? Why stand next to anyone when you can push beyond them? In the game of basketball, you get around someone so you can get past them. Play this game the same way. You go for the win, you don't settle for a tie.

Cleaners understand they don't have to love the work to be successful; they just have to be relentless about achieving it, and everything else in between is a diversion and a distraction from the ultimate prize.