Quotes About Ambition

Don't just live a life; build one.

When you have passion and commitment, you don't need a complex plan. Your plan is your life is your dream.

Great are the rewards of an industrious, affluent and quiet life, but even greater is the attraction of the abyss.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

You think publishing is tough but the music world is ten times tougher.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Donald Hall asked Henry Moore] 'what is the secret of life?' [Moore answered] 'The secret is to devote your whole life to one ambition. Concentrate everything you know, everything you can summon, to accomplish this one desire. But remember: Choose something you can't do.

A vision without execution is an hallucination.

You feel like all you can get is what other people deign to give you. You don't go after what you want.

Ambition is the mainspring of life, but we must keep it wound up! Self-confidence is the balance wheel which keeps ambition moving at an even momentum. Enthusiasm is the oil with which we keep the human machine greased and in smooth running order. The well-organized, capable, and productive man is AMBITIOUS, ENTHUSIASTIC, and possesses plenty of SELF-CONFIDENCE. Without these, success is uncertain, if not impossible.

A cornerstone of the Toyota Way is "challenge

Kildall] couldn't imagine being knifed in the back—certainly not by Gates. The two had known each other since Gates was a thirteen-year-old hacker in Seattle and Kildall was getting his doctorate. . . . They discussed merging their young companies . .

Business school students seem to be particularly narcissistic, an important fact because many leaders in both the for-profit and the nonprofit world come from business school backgrounds, particularly in the more recent past.

We stretch ourselves when the impact we want to make and the life we want to create is bigger than the fear and challenges.

Having a successful life and business requires that we first learn who we are, then do what we have to do in order to have what we want.

Long and slender in her tailored pencil skirt, Grace Lyndon stood on her executive desk, balancing in her fine designer heels, reaching for a burned-out

In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.

Sadly, when you give someone evil exactly what they want, they only crave more. This group wants all the power they can get their hands on.

I don't want to start the rest of my life having regrets.

I work too hard and I love it too much.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

That's what I always want: to win.

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