Quotes About Ambition

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

When you find your heart's desire, you'll have the key to unlocking your potential in every other part of your life.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion.

Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.