Quotes About Ambition

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

I also remember the moment my life changed, the moment I finally said, ''I've had it! I know I'm much more than I'm demonstrating mentally, emotionally, and physically in my life'.' I made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided I would never again settle for less than I can be.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

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The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.