Susan Sontag Quotes

At one time I was one of those guys looking at the guys on the top saying 'I want to be like that.'

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

We're all trying to catch up with Beyonce. We're all running a race, and Beyonce is up there, and we're all just trying to run and get there. That's my motivation.

You always have to aspire to everything; winning titles is what I've been missing. And I will give my life and everything I have in order to achieve it.

My whole life I saw everybody else get shine, I saw everybody else get money, everybody else wanted to rap. I saw them getting record deals and stuff like that. And everytime I saw that it was damn, I can't wait until my time.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.

Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I have a lot of ambition.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

I think I'm drawn to people who dream big, and both films have that. In 'Street Fight, Cory Booker wants to become Mayor of Newark, and in 'Racing Dreams,' three kids want to become NASCAR drivers.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle.