Quotes About Ambition

In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Life is a race; desire the goal.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

a dream can be the highest point of a life

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Life is about making tough choices. Sometimes you have to go where your career is going.

I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, and decided I was just going to give comedy a try.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.

I want more from life than that and I have more to give.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.