Quotes about Ambition

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

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.

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.

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.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.