Quintilian Quotes

A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.

Ambition is an expensive impulse, one that requires an enormous investment of emotional capital. Like any investment, it can pay off in countless different kinds of coin.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

I've never been driven to just be a celebrity or just get me on TV. Never ever. What's always driven me is being successful and being good at what I do.

I'm very ambitious. I always want more after I get something I've dreamed about, so every day, I have a new target and a new path to follow. That's pretty much my law in life.

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

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

I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.

I'm definitely driven to go as far as I can.

Even though I've accomplished so much in WWE as well as having a franchise in 'The Marine,' it's still not enough for me. I always want more.

I'm always inspired to push forward.

Life motivates me.

My passion is my driving force.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.

At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior says: "I have dreams."

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

Motivation is motive in action.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

I always wanted to be a winner, to score goals. There was no massive bravery in terms of my mum passing away and stepping up. I just wanted to score. I know everyone would have given me a pass on it if I hadn't taken it. But I'd have had the hump with myself if I'd shirked it.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?