Quotes About Ambition

The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

I think I like a challenge. I try to find projects that will push me in a new way and help me grow.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want.

Most people are not going after what they want. Even some of the most serious goal seekers and goal setters, they're going after what they think they can get.

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you're not setting big enough goals.

It is how hard you want, what you want that gets it.

If it doesn't take your breath away, make a bigger wish.

Set a goal to achieve something that's so big so exhilarating that excites you & scares you at the same time.

Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.

Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming.

Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

You'll never be fully engaged in where you are or where you're going by settling for normal. Here's a fact: No one who was normal ever made history. Drop that fantasy like a hot rock!

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

I will be the first woman president of Mexico in history.

Be black, shine, aim high.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

History paints the human heart.