Ambition Quotes
Ambition Quote of the day
Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris
People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
Everyone— black as well as white— thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain't nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to cadillac overnight
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
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.
They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
