Quotes About Ambition

Be what you want to be and let not the views of man alter that goal of yours.

Those who cry that they can't fly in the sky, must just try to be what they want to be!

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow.

Knowing where you want to be is as important as knowing who you are.

There's a lot of good things about you, and there's a lot of good things that you can do with your life.

Until now, I had reckoned only that I had not the 'gift' for writing; now M. de Norpois took from me the ambition also.

the object of her most trivial thoughts, and the goal of her most important actions

She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that, since I wished, some day, to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write.

don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep you safe.

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success—and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

Even the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.

Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

we were like crabs in a barrel, that none would allow the other to climb over, but on any such attempt all would continue to pull back into the barrel the one crab that would make the effort to climb out.

whipped. It annoys me to be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.

You always have to strive

Nothing just happens. You always have to strive. - Marcus Luttrell

Nothing just happens. You always have to strive.

You have to have drive and commitment - as well as an honest sense of what is and isn't possible.