Quotes About Ambition

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be agressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Make It Happen.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Freddy left the business and went to work as a pilot with Trans World Airlines. At age twenty-three, he married a stewardess, and the couple had two children, Fred and Mary. Freddy seemed far happier than he had been under his father; Donald, however, couldn't help but pick on Freddy's run-of-the-mill ambitions, asking him, "What's the difference between what you do and driving a bus?

To Trump, winning was always paramount. "If I don't win, what have I done?

At his father's Avenue Z office, Donald was itching to break away from building basic housing for middle-class, outer-borough families. When Fred Trump did branch out beyond Brooklyn, it was to buy cheap plots from desperate sellers in California, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia. Donald wanted something bigger.

Dobias taught his players the line famously attributed to legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi: "I taught them that winning wasn't everything, it was the only thing," Dobias said. "Donald picked right up on this. He would tell his teammates, 'We're out here for a purpose. To win.' He always had to be number one, in everything. He was a conniver even then. A real pain in the ass. He would do anything to win

There is an immutable law in basketball: someone must fall for someone else to rise. Those at the top stay there only by beating down those just beneath them." 121 When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback

Live forever or die trying.....

Wildlife photographer, photojournalist, war correspondent, paparazzi, even portraitist, but life laughs at the plans we make, and the dreams and ambitions of youth quickly morph into the embarrassing memories of adulthood.

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In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, and cruelty. —Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will." ? Stephen King Quote

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.