Quotes about Ambition

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.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre.