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Ambition Quotes

"People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning."
Kobe Bryant
"I focus on one thing and one thing only—that’s trying to win as many championships as I can."
Kobe Bryant
"I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you."
Kobe Bryant
"I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you."
Kobe Bryant
"I don’t want chumps, I don’t want pushovers, and if you’re a chump and a pushover, I will run over you."
Kobe Bryant
"I wanna be the best, simple, and plain."
Kobe Bryant
"I’m playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition—that’s what I’ve always wanted."
Kobe Bryant
"My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently un-achievable challenges, and trying to rise above them."
Richard Branson
"If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you’ve got."
Richard Branson
"I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going."
Richard Branson
"Don’t think what’s the cheapest way to do it or what’s the fastest way to do it…think ‘what’s the most amazing way to do it’."
Richard Branson
"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Pablo Picasso
"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."
Buddha
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
Muhammad Ali
"What keeps me going is goals."
Muhammad Ali
"It’s not bragging if you can back it up."
Muhammad Ali
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough."
Muhammad Ali
"I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked."
Muhammad Ali
"I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over — like the Kennedys down in Washington."
Muhammad Ali
"At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far."
Muhammad Ali