Quotes about Ambition

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?

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.