Quotes About Ambition

End of year #motivationmonday: Your past does NOT equal your potential.

She put down her screwdriver, turned to me, and said, "Don't be silly, Ree. Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

Excuses are dream killers. If we allow them, our excuses will keep us locked in a prison of our own making.

Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Me parecía que mi talento iba debilitándose paulatinamente. ¿Por qué no conseguía ser una bruja decente?, me preguntaba en tales ocasiones. ¿Carecía acaso de voluntad, de entusiasmo, de coraje? No me agradaba lo bastante el poder, me decía, ni me desagradaba lo bastante la fatalidad".

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system.

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

You won't become what you want to be, else you become what you fear to be.

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

It's not enough to have the feathers.You must dare to fly!

Think of how far you've come, " Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I guess I'm motivated by the fear of failure to some degree and knowing what can happen when you don't do things the way you need to do them to have success.

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.