Quotes About Ambition

I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.

I grew up in a town - it was so small that I was like, 'There's absolutely no way that I'm going to stay here and live the kind of life that everybody else does.'

When do you realize when you're a kid that you're going to be great and everybody else doesn't understand that? I don't know. I just felt I could beat everybody.

Who doesn't think that they're the best? I've put in the work and time just like everybody else. So, yes, I do believe I'm the best player.

give your brain hopes and dreams

Barcelona, negó entonces con la cabeza Dalmau, era una ciudad tremendamente cruel con quienes la engrandecían entregando su vida y su salud, su familia y sus hijos.

Si sus hombres tuvieran las agallas y la constancia de aquella mujer, en aquel momento serían dueños del mundo entero.

el que tiene dinero quiere más; nunca lo ha regalado y nunca lo hará.

No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. (running for mayor of Bucharest, Romania)

Trying best is enough.

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.

Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18 ' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

This is it, the most powerful thing in the world because all men go crazy for it, more precious than gold since for its sake rich men lose fortunes, sweeter than power because craving for it makes leaders of countries risk their jobs, more powerful than honor because it makes fools of respectable men… It's more powerful than all the world for it contains the whole world plus heaven and hell beside… The power of this grace makes nuclear bombs look like firecrackers.

But Beatrix knew very well that there were no jobs, not even the most pitiful office routine - she wasn't even qualified for that - and that no one would allow her to sleep until late in the afternoon because these ill-advised people all around her let themselves be squeezed into schedules; that she would never work, least of all learn a trade, because she had no ambition whatsoever to earn a single shilling, become self-supporting and spend eight hours a day with people who smelled bad.