Quotes about Ambition

If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.

We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."

Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.

What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

I've always known what I wanted. I've always wanted to be on top of that podium.

Tuchel shows me how to move and what I could do better. He wants to take me to absolute top level.

Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)

But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.