Quotes About Ambition

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.