You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

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"You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

- Diana Ross

Motivation

"You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself."

- Diana Ross

Belief in Self

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

- Diana Ross

Vision

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

- Diana Ross

Vision

"You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you’ve got to get out there and make it happen yourself."

- Diana Ross

Drive

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition