Quotes about Ambition

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

We start dying the day we stop dreaming. And ironically, we start living the day we discover a dream worth dying for.

Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were

What if you knew you wouldn't fail--what would you do? What if time and money weren't an object--what God-sized goal would you go after? If you're looking for an excuse, you'll always find one. The same is true of opportunity.

As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!

Most of us don't get what we want because we don't know what we want. Here's our secondary problem: Most of us don't get what we want because we quit circling.