Inspirational Competition Quotes to Fuel Your Drive to Succeed - page 8

There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one\'s grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
 Graham T. Allison
I study the bible regularly, meet with older wiser mentors weekly, and keep a group of guys in my life who challenge me spiritually. That keeps me moving.
 LeCrae
I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a lot of things in her life, but she had no real ambition. I think my mother really did want a home and kids and all of that.
 Kim Basinger
Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.
 Karen DeCrow
You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.
 Sheryl Sandberg
I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
 Ann Voskamp
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.
 Cecelia Ahern
The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.
 Jeb Bush
The Virgin (and I\'m not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.
The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
 Audre Lorde
Make sure to be well informed before accepting the challenge of a commission - check out that you have a source of reference readily available.
 Richard Brown
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.
Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.
 Samuel Fuller
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.
 Ellen Hopkins
Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.
They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.
They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.
The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.
 Roz Savage