Quotes About Ambition

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

his desperate sale of The Rite of Spring to Walt Disney, to be used in an animated film called Fantasia.

But in the same way that she wanted a marriage and a profession, she was determined that motherhood would not be the end of her career.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy. --Penny Baxter to his son, Jody

I tried my best, but she pulled ahead, and I was loath to shout after her. Instead, I practiced throwing rude and unflattering thoughts in her direction. Killy glanced over her shoulder at me, and her pace slowed to a very fast walk.

she doesn't settle for less than her soul deserves; she is brave and beautiful, tender and fierce; And when she sets her sights on something, she doesn't stop dreaming until it's true.

We start dying the day we stop dreaming. And ironically, we start living the day we discover a dream worth dying for.

Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

What if you knew you wouldn't fail--what would you do? What if time and money weren't an object--what God-sized goal would you go after? If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. The same is true of opportunity.

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!

Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.

Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.

if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

Without it, I'm coasting. With it, I'm gaining momentum

we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year.

Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.

Si estás dispuesto a interrumpir tu ciclo de sueño, tal vez tus sueños se conviertan en realidades.

Twenty years later, Diana Nyad would attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. She swam seventy-eight miles in forty-two hours, but strong winds stopped her short of her goal.

Here is the mistake so many of us make: we start out pursuing a passion and end up settling for a paycheck. So instead of making a life, all we do is make a living. And our deep-seated passions get buried beneath our day-to-day responsibilities.

If you don't have a dream, get around people who do. You might just catch what they have.

I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.

Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.

God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less.