Quotes About Ambition

Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

L'italiano: ero piuttosto debole in italiano. Ma, come vede, non è poi stato un gran guaio: sono qui, procuratore della Repubblica...». «L'italiano non è l'italiano: è il ragionare» disse il professore. «Con meno italiano, lei sarebbe forse ancora più in alto».

To succeed in life one needs two things -- influence and a lucky star.

Although still driven by curiosity and ambition, she did not realize quite how much she had herself become viewed as a curiosity of her time. Still less could she know how, much later, she would come to be seen as the paradigmatic woman of the High Renaissance.

Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.

There are always such people who begin everything but never finish, and I am such a one.

Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

I would rather fail at what I love than succeed at what I hate.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

This is my decade. Nothing is going to stop me.

I know what I want in life and I will do whatever it takes to get it.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, they can't find them, MAKE THEM.   —George Bernard Shaw