Quotes about Ambition

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Hope is a waking dream.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I mean tomorrow if I want to make a film about a queen that lived in the 15th century, I can't be like I can't make it. I should be able to make it.

If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?