Quotes About Ambition

Looking back, I don't think there was ever a point where I officially gave up on my dreams; instead I think it happened gradually, as these things do, so that I barely noticed the shift in my thinking.

Even thinking about working makes me feel queasy. This I know makes me sound a lot like I have no ambition. It presents me as almost having given up on life. It suggests that I'm content to just exist like some corpulent bluebottle basking in the sunshine on the windowsill of life.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

If you choose not to pursue your dreams, you'll still be a part of a dream - only it will be someone else's.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

There's something inherently disappointing about success,' from Topsy-Turvy, a Mike Leigh film about Gilbert and Sullivan.

Dad, they used to tell Wayne Gretzky that he was to small, and that he would never make the NHL look at him now I replied

But that is the funny thing about dreams...Just when you are sure you have a good one, an even better one comes along.

Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of.

We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than death—the fear of not reaching the top.

Attack is the proof that your enemy anticipates your success.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

Never let your dreams go away.

Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

In the final analysis all people—and governments alike—act in their self-interest.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

Why try to pursue what is completed?

Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!

Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex.

The cherished dream of every chessplayer is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.