Quotes About Ambition

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

Now, go take on the day!

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind, and not fruitful.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.

Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

You can't get rich sitting on the bench.

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark!

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.