Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

I want to prove myself.

I set some lofty goals for myself and I think you have to.

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.

I love to see somebody who wants to be the best they can be.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

When I play, I'm playing for myself and I'm playing for my family too.

You want to be the biggest, the greatest. I hope I can be that big in England.

The only thing that motivates me is to become better.

I want to be one of the best.

I'm always trying to push myself to the limit to see what I can do. It's my strong will that I've always had since I was a kid.

You have every right to set yourselves targets and whether you achieve it or not is entirely a different matter but at least you have to be ambitious and set yourself challenging goals.