Quotes About Ambition

You are only as much as you settle for.

Most of us, most of our lives, are asked to live small. Most of us quit trying very young to live the bigness we know is possible.

Joe's scientific life is defined by these significant near misses… He was Shackleton many times, almost the first: almost the first to see the big bang, almost the first to patent the laser, almost the first to detect gravitational waves. Famous for nearly getting there.

He is still all potential. The potential to be great, the potential to be mad. He will achieve both magnificently.

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process."

There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.

as a general proposition, until very recently, vice presidents have always been excluded because it is unsettling to have someone around you whose happiest moment will be when you drop dead.

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that's why he's number two.

Like Alexander the Great and Caesar, I'm out to conquer the world. But first I have to stop at Walmart and pick up some supplies.

Not only am I thinking about getting a nose job, but I'm also trying to get employment for the rest of my face.

I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame.

I like to call in sick to work at places where I've never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don't work there, I tell them I'd like to. But not today, as I'm sick.

I want my kids to have the things in life that I never had when I was growing up. Things like beards and chest hair.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

Wanting something more, and ready to take a risk, Elizebeth quit her job at the Indiana high school in the spring of 1916 and moved back in with her parents to think about what was next.

a quote from Henry Ford: "THINKING ALWAYS AHEAD, THINKING ALWAYS OF TRYING TO DO MORE, BRINGS A STATE OF MIND IN WHICH NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.

It's entirely your responsibility to make your dreams come true.