John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

My one ambition is to play a hero.

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

… ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.

I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.

I've achieved all my dreams.

My ambition is to be the best I can be.

What fulfills me are the goals that I have in life. And those goals are not just about scoring goals, although the goals give me a lot of strength and happiness.