Quotes About Ambition

Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

Being Canadian and from Winnipeg, I have the spirit of a dreamer because of the cold, and being in the basement thinking of possibilities of where else I can be in the world, in a good way!

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.

I like the idea of baking. I'd like to be good at it. But I feel like I'm young and one day I can be.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

Aim for the stars and maybe you'll reach the sky.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement.

Dreams come a size too big so we can grow into them.

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.