Quotes About Ambition

You have to be grateful for what you have, but you're always pushing further.

You cannot get bogged down by failure - you have to keep pushing.

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

I want to see how far I can get in my career and just keep pushing myself to the limit every time and do my best pretty much.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

I really believe in challenging myself, pushing myself to new places.

We have this determination to keep going and keep pushing ourselves creatively.

I have to constantly keep pushing myself.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

In life, that is how you advance - by pushing the limits.

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

I am going to keep pushing myself and I would love to get an individual gold medal. That would be amazing.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.

I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to keep pushing it.

You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'