Quotes About Ambition

My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.

My greatest dream is always to be luckier.

Don't come home a failure.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

I've got to be first all the time — in everything.

I was certain I was going to do something in sports.

Finally, here is another useful question used by Peter Thiel: • "How successful do you want to be?" Or this variant favored by Tyler: • "How ambitious are you?

The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of extreme ambition, are slowly being removed by code as a path to a new contentment. We are using the acceleration of information transmission to decelerate changes in our physical world.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

While the most dangerous person in the world is a person with nothing to lose, the most powerful person in the world is a person with nothing to prove.

Don't share your dreams with everyone and don't be angry with non-dreamers.

The dream will outlive the dreamer so dream big.

It takes a while to build a dream

there are people whose lives are tied into your dream. Own your stuff, own your business, own your way.

Try this affirmation: "I'm on the road to meet my dream.

There ain't no man going to do something for you that you can't do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.

so hard, if I didn't dream of better times, I wouldn't have made it.

When I was twenty years old and putting on my first play in Birmingham, Alabama, I had to use my mother's credit card to rent a van to get there. The bill was around three hundred dollars. But the show didn't make any money, and when I came home I had to tell her I couldn't pay for the rental.

energy, all your hopes—into a dream, then meeting the hard knocks of failure over and over again, falling down and getting up…having to push yourself up to rise and try again for seven long years.

payment and money that should have gone to my apartment, and rented the 14th Street Playhouse in downtown Atlanta. I hired actors, built scenery, and rented props. I did the whole nine yards on my own, spending all I had to my name.

When I was in my early twenties I didn't have a need to rub together, back when my life was a series of wants and whims. But recently I had felt overwhelmed by longings that seemed to lunge out of me in the most awkward situations.

The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You're generation lacks the drive.

The beginning of my career focused on trying to be a successful model for myself. How many campaigns, magazine covers, fashion shows, and endorsements I could get. The way I see the world now has changed. I am trying to offer as much opportunity to others as I can.