Thurgood Marshall Quotes

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

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

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

I always saw myself going down the path of success.

The competitive spirit and the way we worked hard growing up came naturally to me from my family.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

To be honest, I don't think I ever had thought I had to be successful. I just saw a need and I liked to be challenged, that's my personality.

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.

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

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

I want to be the best. That's just the human way.

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

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

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe something in your family or maybe something in your life that happened that really pushes you for a specific cause - as long as there is something that you're doing.

I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.