Quotes About Ambition

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

No road is paved with gold unless you make it your own treasure.

Coffee breath: the smell of success.

It's never too late to become what you want to be. Unless you want to be younger.

Industry is the parent of fortune.

"We want in so many different ways to be," he began again. "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man he will never on his heap of mud keep still. He want to be so, and again he want to be so…" He moved his hand up, then down… "He wants to be a saint, and he wants to be a devil..."

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are, if indeed you cannot get it above them, than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Given enough coffee, I could rule the world!

Let's live with that small pittance that we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Vision is the foundation of courage and the fuel of persistence.

Ambition — What will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

Don't quit your day dream.

Do not plant your dreams in the field of indecision, where nothing ever grows but the weeds of "what-if."

My dreams leap — dancers of the night, reaching heights unknown to the day.

Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.

If you've climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you've far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life.

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.

Dreams are as powerful as swords.

The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.

He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about! He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor. And