Quotes about Ambition

You must resolve, from this moment forward, to become a goal-seeking organism, like a guided missile or a homing pigeon, moving unerringly toward the goals that are important to you.

To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must learn and practice qualities and skills that you have never had before.

In fact, the habit of setting and achieving ever-larger goals is absolutely indispensable to the development of ever-higher levels of self-confidence and personal power.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

The world is full of people who all want the same thing, and you have to do a little something extra to make them remember you.

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

It was ironic, but when you scratched the surface, most successful men were working for one thing only--to retire--and the sooner the better. Whereas women were the complete opposite. She had never heard a woman say she was working so she could retire to a desert island or to live on a boat. It was probably, she thought, because most women didn't think they deserved to do nothing.

A man came up to her. Expensively tailored suit. Okay, he wasn't exactly a man because he was only thirty-five. But he was trying.

I could live here forever. Maybe even become real New Yorker someday.

Anyone can win if they know what they want and they focus on it. And if they're willing to make sacrifices. I always tell my clients there are no free shoes.

I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere.