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Quotes About Ambition

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.
~ Harry S. Truman
Life and career are the same thing. Every life has to have a plot and a plan. You have to recognize this early and be quite cold-blooded in the discovery and articulation of that plot.
~ Iain Sinclair
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
~ Yohan Blake
My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.
~ Agapi Stassinopoulos
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
~ Ayn Rand
I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.
~ Drake
My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
~ Nicki Minaj
The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them.
~ Steven Adler
Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
~ Sylvester Stallone
My excitement about my life and my future makes me happy, because I am a dreamer, and I always dream, no matter how many obstacles are in my way.
~ Tasha Smith
My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.
~ Tim Tebow
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
~ Victor Hugo
I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.
~ Wayne Gretzky
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
~ Charles Kettering
If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.
~ Confucius
I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.
~ David Fincher
I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.
~ David Gilmour
I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.
~ David Paterson
Life is pulled by goals and pushed by drive. Make sure you have both!
~ Denise Austin
But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?
~ Diana Nyad
I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
~ Don Johnson
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.
~ Edward Gibbon
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
~ Francis Ford Coppola