On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
One great concern that plagues very ambitious people is this: in the end, they’ll get all the precious things they ever dreamed of and every precious accomplishment most expected and conceived they’d achieve . . . but on that path of ambition, they’d lose precious moments with the most precious people they’ve come across. However, they forge ahead on that path hoping, somehow, they might make up for it, sometime, in future.
Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court.""And why is that?""Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.
“He's very fair, balanced and objective. I don't detect any bias in him and I don't detect any ambition.”
“My people come here for a fair reason. And I feel like the government is holding us back from our ambitions.”
“There is a real danger that the competitive disadvantage caused by this measure will frustrate the government's ambition of making the U.K. the best place to trade electronically by 2002,”
“There is a real danger that the competitive disadvantage caused by this measure will frustrate the government's ambition of making the U.K. the best place to trade electronically by 2002.”
“In any organization men would move up from the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.”