Quotes About Ambition

I am sick of the quarrels of nations and kings, and I would not give a ha'pence for any empire other than our valley, if that can content your ambition.

If Napoleon can seek to ascend all the thrones of Europe, I suppose we may go dragging them out from under him

Small hopes were riches to those who until lately had none, and were to be pursued by every means at hand.

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thinf at once, I would do nothing forever.

The memory of the story the way they'd told it in the village square so many times, about a girl who made herself a queen with someone else's gold, and never paid her debts.

No one had cared what I wanted, or whether I was happy. I'd had to find my own way to anything I wanted. I'd never been grateful for that before now, when what I wanted was my life.

I'm still the kid dreaming of the lives she'll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn't want them.

Work on what you love, your needs will be met.   No

It profits women little if we gain the whole world only to fear ourselves.

Great Minds Quotes ?@GreatestQuotes The starting point of all achievement is desire. Weak desire brings weak results.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Goals are dreams with a deadline.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.

You become what you think about

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter. A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

Successful men become successful only because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success.

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE.

Success come to those who become success conscious.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.