Quotes About Ambition

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

Some people admire the aspirational rock star figures whose biopics make it to TV, the people they watched as kids and made them want to play football for England. For some comics, it is often the Doug Stanhopes and the Joan Rivers.

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

For reasons that are both fair and foul - but mostly for fair reasons - we have come under the domain of a scientific-management system whose ambitions are endless. They want to manage every second of our lives, every expenditure that we make. And the schools are the training ground to create a population that's easy to manage.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

There are a lot of ways to make people not like you, but one of the most powerful - if least fair - is to be really, really successful. Nobody resents the guy who just lost his job. But the guy whose Internet start-up made him a billionaire at 25? That's a whole different kettle of envy.

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can't take steps toward whatever your goal is.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.

'No fear' is a mindset that I stand for. It's the reason why I've got to where I am today.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Why go through life if you're not going to challenge yourself?

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all. You don't have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It's that fear of going back down.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.

I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

Why is Poroshenko going for a second term? So that he doesn't get a first.

I love 'Sunday in the Park with George.' I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing 'Finishing the Hat' or at least reading the lyrics to 'Finishing the Hat' and other songs from 'Sunday in the Park with George' to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

If I am fit to rule the largest state of India, why can't I run the whole country?

God gave me all this; why waste the talent that he gave me? Why not go full throttle with it all and try to become in the class with the greatest players that ever played the game? That's just a great feeling.