Quotes About Ambition

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental result.

Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.

She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.

I focus all my energy into become a faster, stronger, and better version of myself.

Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market.