Jack Gilbert Quotes

In a sense, it's less about seeing how high up I can vault than about seeing how deeply I can explore my potential...Ambition for me is about the willingness to work, the ability to mine my own soul fearlessly.

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

What we have not has made us what we are. / ... / What we are not drives us to consummation.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

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

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge them to go beyond being average.

I am not content at all. I am a very greedy actor, I just want to keep exploring myself.

There's an inner desire, something inside of me, that's always wanted to be great and leave a mark.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

I'm trying to do something more than just be a champion who wins fights.

I'm constantly trying to figure out my life and what's next. I'm never satisfied with what I have.

I just want to do as good as I can. What that is, I don't know.

You are what you settle for.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.