Quotes About Ambition

El mundo es de quienes van a buscarlo.

Fox: It's lonely at the top. Gould: But it ain't crowded.

Reuther yearned to be near the center of power, and Johnson was masterly at the twin arts of flattery and manipulation, making Reuther feel that he was the president's confidant.

Shorten is one of that interesting pack of politicians born of determined mothers and largely absent fathers. There are so many: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are distinguished alumni. Among recent Labor leaders in Australia are Rudd, Albanese and Shorten. Among the qualities these men share are self-discipline, boundless ambition and an appetite for approval on a national scale.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

just be what you want to be and you will be happy

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

All of us have to start somewhere. Where you start is unimportant. What matters is where you finish.

Generally speaking, motivation always comes first,

Patience often surrenders to time, and dreams go unfulfilled - act as if time is fleeting, as it is.

Maybe success comes from simply following one's destiny.

One thing I do know, and I believe you know it too, is that what he is doing goes against the very grain of the universe. He's taking the path of Icarus, and no matter how you mix the wax, it melts when it gets too close to the sun.

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might it have been Emma, instead of Stephanie Shaw, eating Pret A Manger sandwiches in a pencil skirt? For some time now she has had conviction that life is about to change if only because it must, and perhaps this it, perhaps this meeting is the new start.

to become exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil, rejection & struggle

you know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do...

Getting what you go after is success. Liking it while getting there is happiness.

I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.

Si te rodeas de personas más pequeñas que tú, acabarás siendo un enano. Si te rodeas de personas más grandes que tú, te convertirás en un gigante.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.' Pursuit

I like to succeed in public, but to fail in secret.