Quotes About Ambition

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

the most important thing to be successful is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and to obtain at least a part of it.

All his life, the ruler of Russia displayed towards able comrades a blend of admiration and envy which impelled him to murder most of them sooner or later.

Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

He is a man. He is governed by power and riches and by his testicles.

The ultimate goal of the arriviste's aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the "thing" as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which results from his constant comparisons.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

The Puritans wanted to be men of the calling--we, on the other hand, must be.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings" (Prov. xxii. 29).

Get yourself a goal worth working for.

Henry J. Kaiser, the industrialist considered the father of American shipbuilding, attributed much of his success in business to the constructive, positive use of Creative Imagination with these words: "You can imagine your future.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals that are worthwhile.

Throughout his work, Dr. Maltz used two terms that some people find more beneficial than the word "goal." The word "goal" causes a negative reaction or feeling of tension in some people. But if they use the word "project" or "cause," they understand what they need to do.

Our aim is to find the real self, and to bring our mental images of ourselves more in line with the objects represented by our goals.

You can have many goals, but concentrating on just one at a time will help you accomplish far more than attempting to focus on many at once. Get the fire of desire started within being single-minded about one goal and the flame will naturally spread to the others without you forcing it. 4.

1. Your built-in Success Mechanism must have a goal or "target." This goal, or target, must be conceived of as "already in existence—now" either in actual or potential form.

There were times when it was said that I had more determination than talent. This may be said of many. It may also be said that life loves the person who dares to live it.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.