Quotes about Ambition

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

The only failure is not to try.

We grow small trying to be great.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

As it turns out, I can see I'm quite a business-minded person as I've developed.

I remember the first time I saw the 'Sugarhill Gang' on Soul Train. I was 11 or 12. I was like, 'What's going on? How did those guys get on national TV?' And then, when I was a little older, a rapper from the neighborhood got a record deal. I was shocked.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.