Inspirational Competition Quotes to Fuel Your Drive to Succeed - page 19

Accidents on big mountains happen when people\'s ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.
 Bear Grylls
Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.
 Alex Trebek
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.
 Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
 Michael J. Fox
Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
 Walter Darby Bannard
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
 Pierre Corneille
Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.
 Stephen Spender
You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.
 Juan Manuel Fangio
There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power.
 Peter Beinart
Life is about timing.
Life is about timing.
 Carl Lewis
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.
 Roxane Gay
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
 Jim Bouton
generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.
 Margot Fonteyn
That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.
 Jason O'Mara
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
 Earl Monroe
There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
 A. Alfred Taubman
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
 Koichiro Matsuura
A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.
The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.
The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.
 Robert Zubrin
I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.
 Reese Witherspoon