Quotes About Ambition

CHORUS Gird thee for the high endeavor; Shun the crowd's ignoble ease! Fails the spirit never, Wise to think, and prompt to seize. Goethe, Faust, Part II, act 1, 50–53

Wer Perlen will, der muß ins Meer sich stürzen.

People do what they want to do. Thr only thing that matters at the end is your own will

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Fulfilling your dreams is not a luxury, but a purpose in life. The whole point of imagination is to make dreams real.

Only dreamers create consciously. Are YOU a dreamer?

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in you heart.

but a man did not acquire so much gold brocade without learning to swallow his own desire

as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young

Lunch is for wimps.

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

People who don't make something good of what they've got are bound to end up desperate.

You don't quench ambition by feeding it any more than you quench a fire the same way... To an ambitious man, what he already has is nothing. It's what he doesn't have that counts.

Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

You've got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.

you need to know what you're aiming for in order to reach it.

There was no way I wanted to be a pathetic dreamer like him for the rest of my life. I wanted to be the best at whatever I did. The only question was: what would that be?

Showing oneself eager for office was a sign of being unworthy of it, for the office-seeker probably had selfish views rather than the public good in mind.

The man who wants to be an angel is never in a hurry to begin.