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Quotes About Ambition

A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.
~ Paulo Coelho
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
~ Paulo Coelho
Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.
~ Paulo Coelho
I, as a young guy getting out of music school, I didn't like the prospect of spending my life writing music for about 200 people.
~ Philip Glass
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.
~ Ray Lewis
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
~ Richard Branson
If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success
~ Richard Branson
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.
~ Richard M. Nixon
Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.
~ Richard Savage
As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.
~ Will Smith
I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.
~ Will Smith
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
~ William Shakespeare
Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one.
~ Yehudi Menuhin
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
~ Zach Braff
The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.
~ Robert J Kriegel
If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.
~ Robert Stone
I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.
~ Roger McDonald
I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.
~ Romario
The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!
~ Rupert Friend
I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, "Oh my God they have this, I want that."
~ Ryan Lochte
Having, and seeing, your dreams is very important, and so is chasing those dreams. You see dreams when you sleep, and as you chase your dreams, it keeps you awake. So it's important to stay awake.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
~ Sam Abell