Quotes About Ambition

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

Don't let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

I knew I wanted to direct since I was a kid. That was something I was always fascinated by and wanted to experience and see if I would be any good at it.

My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

The balls it took to proclaim a creative profession, the narcissism.

It's a great experience. If you get a chance to run for president, do it.

It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

Failure will not stop you if you are determined to succeed.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.