Joe Nichols Quotes

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

I have an ocean of opportunities awaiting me and once I am back from Miss World, I want to explore whatever life has to offer.

You have to be ambitious in life.

My philosophy is that, in life, you have to want something. If you just say "la-la-la" and go through life without a goal, nothing will happen.

As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

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

In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.

What keeps me going is goals.

If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

I wanted to be a star - with a purpose.

I have so many goals.

We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

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

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.