Quotes About Ambition

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

You know you can do more, but everyone expects you to quit.

However tall trouble is, man must make himself taller still, even if it means making stilts.

I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

His name was George F. Babbitt [and]… he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.

Leaving a little puddle isn't what counts. It's making it in the big one.

It's all a hold up anyway-- money, body, brains. Do you think anybody's ever satisfied with what he's got a right to?

A dream without willingness is just a nightmare.

Don't look back, opportunities never come from behind.

Fight what you are today to become what you wanna be tomorrow.

Hoping without trying, it's like walking backward while facing forward.

Life doesn't give us what we want, but our hard work does.

Our dreams can reach the sky if we won't drop them.

Our dreams only die when we stop dreaming.

Still, you can be the person you wanted to be if you try again.

Strive to become who you want to be.

Try to fulfill your dreams and desires. Our lifespan is too short to relax.

We live according to an agenda we drafted for ourselves.

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.

It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.

Never for me the lowered banner, never the last endeavour.