Quotes About Ambition

Do what I will never do.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

We cannot choose our families or our class sums. But we can choose our own futures.

Rich old people are more attractive than poor old people, so by all means, try to get rich before age sets in. Otherwise, you'll just be playing catch-up for the rest of your life and that will just wear you out, let me tell you.

The emblems of status may shift, but human nature generally delights in being first.

Success is a decision. Dare to choose it.

Many a Man would have been worse, if his Estate had been better.19

John Adams told him. "And if you do not rise . . . to the head of your country, it will be owing to your own Laziness, Slovenliness, and Obstinancy." 65

I've always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific." – Chloe Traeger

There are so many of us out there, trying to turn Spyrograph flowers into rocket ships.

Every heart has a hidden treasure. A secret wish. A silent dream. A special goal to long for. No matter how distant it may seem.

My point is, you can have everything and still not have enough.

Why choose to fail when success is an option?

Why are you going to choose failure when success is an option?

Will is a skill.

Librarians were paid shit and required a masters; chefs traveled the world. Cooking school it was.

A fan of L.A. Law reruns and Law & Order, she'd put lawyer down on the list, hung up the phone, and taken the LSAT. Four years of night school and a shitload of student loans later, she was an attorney.

Your fear of failure should never be greater than your fear of regret.

We all need the pipe dream of writing the great novel, or winning the pools, or becoming managing director and kicking all our colleagues in the teeth. The world is deep and dark and full of tigers, and we need those shimmering white castles in the air to creep into when life gets unbearable.

The appointments secretary had taken Kilduff by the arm and pointed to the broad back of Lyndon Johnson. "He's got what he wants now,

Droga do chwa?y zaczyna si? od jednego kroku. Podobnie jak droga na szafot.

Another problem with concentrating on money and power as a mission and purpose is that you're scorekeeping, and scorekeeping means you're thinking about results over which you have no real control.

People who are unhappy and frustrated in their work either have invalid mission and purposes—"I want to make a million dollars before I'm twenty-one"—or they don't have one and are serving someone else's, and some part of them understands this at some deep level.