Quotes About Ambition

It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

I've always said I'm a good horse but I'm still an underdog.

It's hard to have any kind of luck in this business.

If you aren't really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I can always go back to waiting tables, but I won't be very good at it. I'll never be good at it.

Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.