Quotes About Ambition

I am a competitor, I am a Virgo, and for me, I would never quit anything.

Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

I definitely think everyone's competitive on some level, there's virtually no-one who hasn't cared at some point about something they've done.

When I first started out, I kinda just wanted to do comedy stuff, and thankfully, I had a fair amount of success. I've been able to be on, I think, almost virtually every American sitcom.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

You a role model by way of someone will model after your role. They'll model themselves after what they perceive is success. That doesn't mean they take your morality and virtue seriously. They want what you want, and they're willing to do what you do to get it.

Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that but just by the virtue of having said it out loud, I think there's some power in that.

In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.

In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.

In the 21st century, we face new and more intense global competition, spanning the ambitious and industrious economies from Latin America to Asia. To meet the challenge, Britain must rediscover and reward the lost virtue of hard work - a tried and tested route to individual success, national prosperity, and a fairer society.

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has the visibility.

I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

Visible success is important. It's important to be able to look on the TV and see yourself, turn on the radio and hear yourself. To see people from where you're from actually becoming successful.

Ivanka was relentless and was determined to be the First Daughter Lady and to usurp office space out from under Melania; she wanted to be the only visible female Trump on the premises.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

Many have forged a path to greatness lit only by a vision in their minds.