Quotes About Ambition

The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Be larger than your task.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.

I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

Still humping the American Dream

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

It may take us a little longer to reach the summit, but never fear, we will get there!

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

Fear is always a good motivator.

Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Fear is the greatest predator you encounter on your journey to greatness.