Quotes about Ambition

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

You can't let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

Getting and becoming are siamese twins. If you want more than you have, you have to become more than you are.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

You need to wake up if you want to dream.

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.