Quotes About Ambition

Great leaders often have great pride. To become useful to God, their pride has to be crushed. God can then use the broken pieces to create new, humble people whose consummate abilities are under the leading of the Spirit instead of driven by selfish ambition.

You can't climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

Obviously, raw talent is important, but the difference-maker between first and the rest of the pack is usually desire.

The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's. I will never be a Mrs. Blabidyblah!

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

The Greatness of our Dreams depends on the Purity of our Heart.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

There was a whole world out there waiting for her-- all she had to do was reach out and grab it.

Quitting-it was a dirty word in a place where pilgrims had endured harsh winters and where pioneers had struggled through death and disease to create new lives. Giving up or stepping back or setting aside something you thought you wanted- it was almost a shameful act.

Why does anyone do anything impossible? To be bigger than the big bastard.

You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want.

had not lived the life of the girl in New York. She had chosen to go to Iowa,

Always feel hungry for a daring life.

Be bold and fly toward the unknown. Discover a road that was never known.

Be simple but think great to be great.

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Don't wait for the opportunity, create it.

Everything humanity have achieved is achieved by dreams, desires, and actions.

Expectations define achievement.

For success, purpose is more important than process.

Go for the desire you dare to dream.

Greatness demands great courage.