Quotes about Ambition

I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

It helps if you really enjoy your jobs. If you don't, then just think about the money.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Do not allow defeat to extinguish your dreams. If you keep working and remain optimistic, opportunities can come your way.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president.