Quotes About Ambition

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

Let's say you're a garage mechanic, and you have big dreams about opening up your own chain of branded garages around the country. Terrific.

I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

I believe people have to follow their dreams-I did.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

Never give up on your dreams.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

What you plan is too small for you to live.

You have to know what you want to get it.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.