Quotes About Ambition

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized--never knowing.

There is nothing more bitter than an opportunist who miscalculates.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

I had this real hardass for a tutorial in grad school,' Jeannine finally said. 'And this one time when I told him that maybe my project hadn't panned out because it had been too ambitious, he said that he'd always thought that the moral of the Icarus story was not 'Don't try to fly too high.' He said he thought it was 'Do a better job on the wings.

Pursue your dreams as if you will live forever, and consider your legacy as if this will be your final day.

What we all seek is not necessarily success but our own comfort zone.

If you want real motivation, the kind that will consume every pore of your body, sustain itself not only through the next morning, but many mornings to come, and drives you to achieve your goals, look deep inside and see if you can find it within you. Because you sure won't find it anywhere else.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

There is a wonderful way to forsee the future: create it.

T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

When people talk about "success" It's just an unfair standard that they created to apply to people in their own league

Life is a quest to find out how much better you can be and higher you can go.