Quotes About Ambition

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.

Among all of the powers and principalities, there is none on earth so mighty as a man's unsatisfied desire.

What sort of Englishman is forever too busy for tea? The nose-to-the-grindstone sort, to begin with. The sort who gets ahead without connections, who makes something of himself without benefit of small talk or social lubrication or the seeking of personal kindnesses.

I felt I would live a long, lonely, useless life and die alone and unmissed (did I mention that I never bothered filling out any grad-school applications?) It's self-indulgent, I know, but this is what happens to the overachieving but essentially useless children of parents who raised their children to do well on tests but failed to equip them with the poison-tipped spurs of true ambition.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

One dream, will suffice a thousand nightmares.

The reason the stars are so high up into the sky is because they belong to those with high determination

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness

You shall discuss dreams, not deny!

Stay up... 'till you come up... when you come up stay up!

Trying to get prosperity through seed of faith is running after shadows

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

The first CD said exactly what it was. I was just in the streets hustling. I come from a family of hustlers.

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

I've always dreamed of having a large family.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.