Quotes About Ambition

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Honestly, I would love to fight Henry Cejudo. You've got that gold medalist in the Olympics, I would love to test myself against that.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

There's a lot of good fighters at 168 with or without Canelo, so I want to test myself against them.

In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.

I want to try out for Playmate actually. I talked to one of the photographers about doing test shots.

I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, either I achieved success by being an astronaut, or if I don't get picked, I'm not successful. I loved my career as a pilot, and it was a bonus to be selected as an astronaut.

Somehow, I knew you had to have perfect eyesight to be a test pilot, and so that was it for my astronaut career.

I've worked countless jobs from waiting tables to packing boxes in a paper factory - a testament that I hustled on and never gave up til I reached my dreams.

I tested against Kaley Cuoco for 'The Big Bang Theory.' Not getting that hurts.

If you've got aspirations to be tested to the absolute maximum you want to be in the starting line-up.

I was one of those kids who looks really good on paper, I tested very well, I went to a fancy college, won some prizes. When I came out of school, I had many horrible jobs, but I didn't know what the path was to a creative life or the life of a writer.

I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

As a sportsman you are always testing your limits.

As a footballer, you want to keep testing yourself and you also want to be playing at the biggest clubs possible.

In my time in F1, I never doubted I could be successful. I sadly never made it on to the starting grid of an F1 race, but during testing I completed a race distance.

I have a little bit of extra testosterone, and it's good to put it to work when I can.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

The sadness comes because we turned aside to little things and in turning aside failed to reach our dreams — and also failed to reach the potential greatness that was in us.

and a bank of six screens on which you could plot world domination, or watch Sky Sports.

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving.

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.