Quotes about Ambition

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'

Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don't think you have to wait for the latter to do the former.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

They intended to use America's absence from the world scene to overthrow the Saudi king, expropriate the wealth of his branch of the royal family and its supporters, reconcile with Iran and Syria, and establish a modern technocratic caliphate using science and technology to raise the standing of the Muslim world to heights not seen in a thousand years.

Savagery in the quest for power is older than the Bible, but some of my opponents really hate my guts.

You learn to live with the paradox. Meanwhile, you keep looking for chances to push the limits back, to do as much as you can as many as you can, every day. Even on the bad days, there's something good you can do.

Progress apart from purpose ends in arrogance.

Every breathing soul longs to overcome.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.