Quotes About Ambition

Endless desire is one of the pitfalls of human nature, and one of the first things you need to cure if you want to get ahead more quickly.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.

Napoleon… mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

We have conquered everything, and everything has slipped out of our grasp.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

You may as well attempt to colonise the moon with white mice as publish a volume of poetry'.

They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Keep chasing your dreams before guilt of doing nothing touches your back

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.