Quotes About Ambition

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Money wont create success, the fredom to make it will

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

I believed that I would become a counsellor to the Thembu king,

A dreamer is a winner who never gives up

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

I hope to stay on 'Glee ' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.

A lot of people went through life feeling they'd been ripped off. The money, the good jobs, the beautiful women, the rich husbands, had been snatched away from them, given to the wrong people.

Criminals were a lazy bunch. If they weren't, they'd get their MBAs and rob with impunity.

To what degree are you lost in your dream of success? Your world is your dream pushed out.

The essential points in the successful use of the law of assumption are these: First, and above all, yearning; longing; intense, burning desire. With all your heart you must want to be different from what you are. Intense, burning desire [combined with intention to make good] is the mainspring of action, the beginning of all successful ventures. In every great passion [which achieves its objective], desire is concentrated [and intentioned. You must first desire and then intend to succeed].

If you don't have specific goals written down for your life, you are mentally malnourished. Your mind was designed to be fed with goals just as your body was designed to be fed with food and water.

Successful men and women train their minds to think only about what they want to happen in their lives.

High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods.

When you know what you want and when you want it, you can always find a way to make it happen.

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

Allora, come va il tuo libro, Ruth?' mi ha chiesto Timmy. 'Ruth vuol fare la scrittrice' ha spiegato a Packy. In realtà io non volevo fare la scrittrice, volevo fare la lettrice , aspirazione assai più rara. Ma sai com'è, una cosa tira l'altra.

They had no children. They spent money on the house, and for five years it went through an elaborate series of new looks each one more ambitiously designed than the next, until to scratch the wall in the bathroom was to reveal a rainbow of pastel shades in which could be read my mother's hopeless biannual efforts to sustain her domestic dream.