Quotes about Ambition

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.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man