Quotes About Ambition

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

Go big or go home. Because it's true. What do you have to lose?

Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you're wasting your youth.

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.

I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.

Nothing great happens when you hold back.

I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.