Quotes About Ambition

The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism in its purest form; nothing - no law or custom, no person white or black, male or female - could keep him for long from whatever he wanted.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.

My life is based on pain, passion, and purpose.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

My purpose will not be denied.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.

It's hard not to chase the money. You sit at home when guys are out playing for a $6 million purse, and you know you're going to drop back on the money list, so you end up playing when you don't really want to.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

I left my cushy job as an engineer in New Delhi in 2008 to pursue acting in Mumbai. I figured roles will start pouring in as soon as I landed in the city, but my bubble burst quickly.

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.