Quotes about Ambition

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.

I've managed to get some work done nearly every day of my adult life, without impressive financial success. Yet I would do it all over again in a hot second, mistakes and doldrums and breakdowns and all. Sometimes I could not tell you exactly why, especially when it feels pointless and pitiful, like Sisyphus with cash-flow problems.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre.

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals.

Perfect closes the door. It asserts that we're done, that this is the best we can do. Worse, perfect forbids us to try. To seek perfection and not reach it is a failure.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.