Quotes About Ambition

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

We fear the thing we want the most.

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

If we get everything that we want, we will soon want nothing that we get.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

It is not enough to succeed, a friend must fail.

The way to get ahead is to start now.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.