Quotes About Ambition

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

Etch out the future on your own design.

When I did big things, some large corporations like the Pennsylvania Railroad Company were behind me and responsible party.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

If you want it and you dream about it...there's nothing that's going to stop you.

In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell.

Stop whining, start hustling.

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

Set stretch goals. Don't ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don't sell yourself short by thinking that you'll fail.

Dreams create desire. Desire creates determination. Determination creates distance between you and failure.

It's easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.