Quotes About Ambition

Sometimes a dream is enough.

He wasn't proud or arrogant, but there was a self-confidence about him that said he knew what he wanted and he was going to get it, and you'd better not get in his way.

Your business? Which is?" "

It wasn't enough to be on the winning side. He would do whatever necessary to make sure he, Han Alister, came out on top.

Cinda Williams Chima

Success has made failures of many men.

Now she knew—dreams weren't what took people places. Circumstances were, followed by decisions and determination.

I think turning fifty means you want to keep everything you already have, but you also want everything you haven't managed to get yet, too. Before it's too late.

There was a time when I considered taking my chartered exams. But then I met Stuart and my career began to take a back seat to his. He often tells me I'll be the one to give up my career – such as it is – anyway when we have kids, so what's the point in doing all that training? I suppose he has a point.

I was aware of doing only a so-so job on the grown-up career front, but I didn't really care, because there were two big exam questions I wanted to be sure I answered fully: the question of art, and the question of love.

It's a matter of visualizing what you want and then making it happen.

The people who succeed are the ones who think through what they really want from the experience and then work incredibly hard, day after day, to attain their goals. They don't just flop around like fish out of water. They have a vision, and they work their asses off to make it a reality.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it

A whim did not provide a living.

If you make a wish and if you keep on making the same wish, it will be granted. That's how strong human wishes are.

Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

Never lose sight of your wish! And if you want to see the wish fulfilled ... you must choose! No matter how painful the choice may be.

All who make wishes are the same. When one wish comes into conflict with someone else's wish ... then one must make a choice. Either abandon one's own wish ... or crush the other's wish for the sake of your own.

You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?

a very real danger that such dribbling will engross an entire lifetime.

And really, does anybody believe that Michelangelo just decided to carve the David one day and went out and bought a slab of marble?

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

Freedom isn't enough. What I desire doesn't have a name yet.