Wendell Phillips Quotes

A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

It's not precisely that I'm not ambitious. I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... much... to go on to the next level.

When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.

I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I'm not trying to say I'm at the top of my profession, but I've seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that's definitely something I want to be a part of.

You always want to get better, and I think that will remain true for the rest of my career.

My career had fallen into an abyss because I was so complacent with things that I had already accomplished. I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.

If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people.

I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

Remember there is plenty of room at the top-but not enough to sit down.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.

We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.

Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see people pulling each other up as they rise.

It's not gender-specific, but I do think it's women who tend to start having that sort of little whispering voice of "I want more here" and "I want more for my family."

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.