Quotes About Ambition

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

Do what you love, and you will love what you do. Knowing what you want is the key to the growth and development of persistence. Knowing what you want will allow you to form definiteness of purpose. Some call this a "made up mind". It's hard to stop a person with a "made up mind". Make up your mind and decide what you want, and you will be persistent.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

We are acquisitive to the point of greed; ready to drop the bone we have for its reflection magnified in the mirror of the future.

Palpatine sought power over others. Yoda sought power from within. Palpatine wanted control of everything, in the hopes of building what he thought would be a perfect universe. Yoda gave up the idea of controlling or perfecting the universe, in the hopes of understanding it.

Or would you just sit around smoking pot all day, rebelling against yourself?

Mark, she now could see, was destined for a life of absolute logic [...], while she, the Etch a Sketcher, thought herself destined for a life of squiggly lines.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

You can't put a limit on aything. The more you dream, the father you get.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

People were always reaching for what they didn't have—fame or wealth, youth or love, some final victory or vengeance. They chased after the prizes that would sum up their lives, seeking to complete themselves. It was so easy to get caught up in the chase.

He would crawl until his body could support a crutch. If he only made three miles a day, so be it. Better to have those three miles behind him than ahead.

Il pouvait monter là-haut s'il le voulait. Monter et toucher l'horizon, sauter par-dessus et découvrir l'horizon suivant

He raised his eyes to a horizon carved from snowy mountain peaks, virgin white against the frigid blue sky. He could climb up there if he wanted. Climb up there and touch the horizon, jump across and find the next.

If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The next morning he would crawl forward again. If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

If luck wouldn't find him, we would do his best to make his own.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Goodly intentions are no use without goodly sums of money, Watson.