Quotes About Ambition

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

It was going all wrong at my college interview until I nonchalantly asked "Do you need any large donations for new buildings?"

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

I wanted to be on the stage, doing very important emotional roles.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.