Quotes About Ambition

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.

States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.

Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

It's in my nature to feel, 'I could be this! This could be mine!'

Nobody ever feels like they've arrived. That's just the nature of being a creative type of person. You always feel like you can get better or reach more people.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.

Poisonous people will try to destroy you when they recognize your power this is because they fear what you might become.