Jon Huntsman Sr. Quotes

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

There's just something inside of me that wakes me up every day and pushes me and wants me to be great.

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.

Ambition has no rest!

I think my parents - my mother in particular - always believed I should go as far as I could with my studies. There was no pressure, but at each step there were people who you admired, and you strived to those levels.

There is no better feeling than knowing you are pushing for something.

I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.

Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum

Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

Goals are essentially private things.

As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself into the competition for the Rhodes scholarship.

I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.

For me, it's ambition. You want more, always. When you achieve one step you need to get the second step.

One World Championship is not enough. Probably eight is not enough. I've set a target of 10 and I'd like between eight and 10.

Chasing greatness - it's what I'm about.

We need to put goals in front of us and move towards them.

I live for the high expectations.

I want to do more and more; it provides me with an incentive.

I always had aspirations to be the champion. I never gave up.

I knew I was going to be somebody.