Quotes about Ambition

Rise in your mind and you will rise in your world.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

Question: But why do people content themselves with a show of godliness? Answer: This helps to keep up their fame. Men are ambitious of credit, and wish to gain repute in the world, therefore they will dress themselves in the garb and mode of religion, so that others may write them down for saints. But alas, what is one the better for having others commend him—and his conscience condemn him? What good will it do a man when he is in hell—that others think he has gone to heaven?

For me, beauty is me at the top of my game, going as hard as I can, without fear of what anyone else thinks. Believing in yourself when nobody else is believing in you is half the battle about anything.

I was saving the name of 'Geisel' for the Great American Novel.

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

what you can image you can be.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.