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Quotes about Ambition

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
- Mia Hamm
Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
- Sheryl Sandberg
Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.
- Sridevi
I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.
- Diane von Furstenberg
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
- Abraham Lincoln
Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right.
- Tom Cotton
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
- Isabel Allende
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
- Michael Jordan
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
- Napoleon Hill
If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.
- Zinedine Zidane
Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.
- Denzel Washington
You have to knock on doors. You can't keep your dreams a secret. You have to put them out there on display and people can say whatever they want but keep on pointing your actions towards your dreams.
- Bishop TD Jakes