Quotes About Ambition

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.

After all, every man will climb if he can, and not many of them continue so kind to old acquaintances.

Sitting here, and thus, she had attained to a state which she could never have desired, not even conceived. And being so unforeseen, so alien to her character and upbringing, her felicity had an absolute perfection; no comparison between the desired and the actual could tear holes in it, no ambition whisper, But this is not quite what you wanted, is it?

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true

The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.

If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon

Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.

If you want to fly with the eagles, don't swim with the ducks!

Live for today, look forward to the future

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

A life- whether seamstress of poet, farmer or king, is not measured by it's length, but by the worth of it's deeds and the power of it's dreams.

Share your dream with people who want you to succeed.

When you live your own dream, you don't have time to be a hater.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. The secret to recapturing dreams is to enjoy the pursuit of the dream, rather than to focus on the outcome.

The fact that you yearn for more doesn't mean you're ungrateful for what you have or that you're greedy. It means you have a higher calling. The yearning inside calls you.

When you stop relying on others or blaming others or waiting on others to go kill something and bring it back for you to eat, you realize you have to go hunt and kill for yourself. You don't complain about what you lack or let setbacks get in the way of finding a way to make your dreams happen. You just go do it.

Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.