Quotes about ambition

Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms there was something noble in the ambitions of Attila or Napoleon but the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others the man of pleasure in his own sensations but the man of understanding in his own actions.

We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself if they don’t sound slightly impossible then they aren’t set high enough.

Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero.

Roger was not personally ambitious he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinateAmbition is a means to thrive.

Your little kettle will rattle in the battle just put it on fire. Spark your ambitions with action and thing will change. Be like a warrior!

My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.

'Chef' is a dish of arroz con pollo served with a smile but not much style. The critic in the film would give it a low grade, for agreeability without ambition.

I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found journalism, but that other voice never fled from me.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty they merely aspire to escape it.

The petty man wants to use God for himself the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead.

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

Your vision will determine your future, mirror only helps you to see your ugly or beautiful face, but only the vision you have can take you far beyond your expectations and imaginations in life.

...he lacked the sort of ambition that JB and Jude had, that grim, trudging determination that kept them at the studio or office longer than anyone else, that gave them that slightly faraway look in their eyes that always made him think a fraction of them was already living in some imagined future, the contours of which were crystallized only to them.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

(I) want to do everything and see everything, sense everything and feel everything and taste everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used. To be in the world, and of the world, and never to stand aside and watch.

With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.

We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.

We must keep on learning for self-development.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air

I am so glad; I had the opportunity to study at University of Jena, the city of light.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

Every successful man knows what a persevering life it was to achieve his goal.

I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.

Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues.

If you believe, you can achieve the set-goal.

May you soar higher and higher, to uphold heavenly blessings.

Keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you will definitely arrive at your destination.

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams.

Sometimes adversity becomes the fuel in which we run on.

No success was won without enthusiasm and perseverance.

You can pursue your dreams by grace.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessation of his sensuous

If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who brought me somewhere I wanted to stay, looked at me and saw someone I wanted to be for good; anyone who was worth giving up the more I wanted down the line.

Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.

You can't achieve what you can't imagine being done

What you desire is what you attract to yourself.

Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold.

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows.

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift—She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

Whatever you dream of, there will be fulfillment.

Momentum builds success.

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

Let your ambitions fly, let nothing hold you back.

The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.

Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

True friends don't come with conditions.

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.

There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.