Jason Isbell Quotes

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

If a person is too 'satisfied', then he might become complacent, not work so hard to get ahead.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

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

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

I set goals, and I like to reach them and accomplish new things.

If you settle in life, you don't go further.

You can never be happy; you can never be satisfied with what you have. You always need to have that want to achieve more, and I definitely want that success.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

I think you should always aim for more.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.