Quotes about Ambition

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a 'have-not,' but I knew that I wasn't.

I'm never going to settle for losing.

Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy.

I think long-term, not short-term.

That's the competitive nature in me. Just wanting to be the best and wanting to do everything I have to in order for this team to make it that far. You put pressure on your shoulders.

Success isn't anything to do with being lucky. It's knowing what you want, taking the necessary action, and believing you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

I want to win, I've still got the fire in the belly to win, it's just the old utensils are not working as good as they used to.

I went to Los Angeles for acting, and I thought that's where I wanted to go, and I found out that I didn't belong there.

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor's place because actors, it belongs to you.