Bert Lance Quotes

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

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

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

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

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

I'm always looking for the next challenge.

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

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 know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'

The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something.

I've accomplished more than I ever dreamed. But I'm hungry for more.

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

I've already accomplished a lot, but I have so much more to do.

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.

If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

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

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.

What keeps me going is goals.

I have so many goals.

When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.