Quotes About Ambition

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven...

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

It is interesting that we call something good a "dream," but being called a "dreamer" is somewhat of a putdown. Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world. If you are a secret dreamer, it's your time to announce yourself.

I'm tired of sailing my little boat Far inside of the harbor bar; I want to be out where the big ships float — Out on the deep where the Great Ones are! … And should my frail craft prove too slight For storms that sweep those wide seas o'er, Better go down in the stirring fight Than drowse to death by the sheltered shore! — Daisy Rinehart

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

We were looking for starfarers, but we were too small and all we saw were their ankles.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

That while I wanted to write with the narrative bravado of Toni Morrison, it might be okay if I started with something less ambitious than a book like beloved.

I wanted to walk into the library on Fifth Avenue with the lions sitting outside and be able to look up my name in the card catalog. I wanted those walls to have just one book with my name on it.

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

Reflect on why you're here. What is your ultimate purpose in life? What do you want to be, do, and have? What do you want to accomplish? What do you want to experience? What possessions do you wish to acquire? What does success look like to you? Make a list of: 30 things you want to do; 30 things you want to have; and 30 things you want to be before you die.

Spend some quality time with your dreams. They are real to the extent that you value them. To the extent that you commit to them and work for them, they will come true.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.

No great man will ever succeed in life if they do not grind their teeth and take the most dangerous path for the attainment of an end.

Funny. You talk of life as if it were a train you have to catch up with. How long have you been trying, three days? And not got a glimpse of it yet, in spite of caviar and champagne?

Success, she [Evie] claimed, made people want to trust you.

Plenty of men are good at acquiring money and cars and things, but only a few have real forward motion. You know. Thrust.'

Bridget scoffed. "And you can lay odds that a man who's driven in his life's pursuits - whatever they are - will be equally driven when it comes to you." Stilling suddenly, she looked up from her work. "You can lose yourself to a man like that.

As people and as a planet we suffer from upward mobility and downward nobility.