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Quotes about Ambition

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
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
— Jon Bon Jovi
Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
— Catherine of Siena
Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.
— CT Studd