Quotes About Ambition

we were all driven by something that pushed us further than others dared to go. We were mission oriented and would do what we had to do to achieve it.

Richard Marsh

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

The sky is no longer the limit.

whatever you do - his father continued - dream big, take risks, and work harder than whoever else is doing the same thing. Do you know why I've succeeded? not because of talent, I've known writers more gifted than I am. But I was driven to wring every molecule out of whatever talent I possessed. Success is not something you aspire to, you have to grab it by the throat.

There'll be people better and smarter than you, Adam. There always are. Your strength must be to want it more, and let nothing get in the way. They called Robert Kennedy ruthless. But for a few months before he died, when I joined his campaign, I knew Bobby very well, and I can tell you he was most ruthless with himself. That's how you should be.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

Procrastination is the thief of dreams

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

We are all in motion, always. Those who are not climbing towards something are descending toward nothing.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

They're too busy building monuments to themselves.

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

Wasted dreams, I suppose." "I don't think there's such a thing," Justin said. "Dreams have value

There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.

Or take fame for instance. For one brief moment, a man finds himself on a throne. And for a while he believes himself specialã…¡a little bit better than everyone else. But then he discovers that his throne is just another seat in an ongoing game of musical chairs and eventually he's gong to lose his place. Sometimes he spends the rest of his life trying to get back to the chair.

Without dreams, life is a desert.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

Every basketball wimp needs a lesson, and you seem to think you're somewhere above your true station in life.

Richard Phillips

In the words of Morelly, the author of the influential treatise Le Code de la Nature, published in 1755: The only vice which I know in the universe is avarice; all the others, whatever name one gives them, are merely forms, degrees of it. . . . Analyze vanity, conceit, pride, ambition, deceitfulness, hypocrisy, villainy; break down the majority of our sophisticated virtues themselves, [they] all dissolve in this subtle and pernicious element, the desire to possess.