Quotes About Ambition

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

The tragedy of life lies not in not reaching your goals, but in having no goals to reach.

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us...

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, their hand is mended by the endevour, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it

Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.

I am captivated more by dreams of the future then history of the past.

Your Business is to shine; therefore you must by all means prevent the shining of others, for their Brightness may make yours the less distinguished.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

M]y father discourag'd me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one.

It was about this time I conceiv'd the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection.

Who is there that can be handsomely Supported in Affluence, Ease and Pleasure by another, that will chuse rather to earn his Bread by the Sweat of his own Brows?

On the whole, I wondered much how such a man came to be intrusted with so important a business as the conduct of a great army; but, having since seen more of the great world, and the means of obtaining, and motives for giving places, my wonder is diminished.

By comparing my work afterward with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present.

Success has ruined many a man.