Ambitious Pursuit Quotes

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.

It always started with a dream.

Get rich or die tryin'.

Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve.

If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead.

From the very beginning, I had an ambition for 'The Luminaries': a direction - but not a real idea.