Quotes about Ambition

It is remarkable, I have since thought, how once a man has a few coins, no matter how he came by them, he thinks right away that he is entitled to them, and to whatever they can buy, and fancies himself cock of the walk.

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Second place is meaningless. You can't always be first, but you have to believe that you should have been - that you were never beaten - that time just ran out on you.

You become what you think about most of the time.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

I've managed to get some work done nearly every day of my adult life, without impressive financial success. Yet I would do it all over again in a hot second, mistakes and doldrums and breakdowns and all. Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems.