Quotes About Ambition

Take your dream to the next level by setting a goal.

The more challenging the goal, the more you must focus your life on it.

If you're waiting for someone to make the world just right for you so you can succeed, you're on the road to nowhere.

Where do you want to go? Somewhere. Even if you don't know where you're going, you're going to wind up somewhere. I call it nowheresville. And that's no place to be.

His father had smashed his very first guitar for him, in an early attempt to rid Jude of his musical ambitions. Jude hadn't been able to repeat the act himself, not even onstage, for show, when he could afford all the guitars he wanted. He was, however, perfectly willing to use one as a weapon to defend himself. In a sense he supposed he had always used them as weapons.

I'd netted a bachelor's in English from Boston University, but it had done less for me, in strictly financial terms, than the eight-week course that earned me a commercial driver's license.

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.

This has never been about Hal. This has always been about you… a dream… and a choice to keep it alive.

You've gotta work hard to stay on top, and when you stop wanting to work hard, you just become average. That happens to anyone.

You only live once but if you work it right once is enough

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

You've got to have dreams. If you don't continue to have dreams, then you're only defeating yourself. If you continue to follow your dreams, you're going to succeed.

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?" —

That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

At long last, I felt a sense of accomplishment and a sense of closure. In the secret places of my very small heart, I had long entertained dreams of coming back in my next life as a moron.

If you succeed with one dream...it's not long before you're conjuring up another, slightly harder, a bit more ambitious, a bit more dangerous

A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.