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Quotes About Ambition

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
~ Abdul Kalam
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
~ Unknown
All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations.
~ Robert White
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
~ John F Kennedy
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
~ Aristotle
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
~ Walt Disney
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
~ Walt Disney
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
~ Zig Ziglar
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
~ Nelson Mandela
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~ Barack Obama
There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
~ Warren Buffett
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
~ Ronald Reagan
Life is never easy for those who dream.
~ Robert James Waller
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.
~ James Dean
Our lives are much too short to just focus on the hurtful times, and instead we should make great attempts to stay on the path towards greatness and reaching our dreams despite how much pain we may be in.
~ Unknown
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
~ Unknown
Life is too short to just wait for things to happen, you need to make things happen.
~ Unknown
Time spent wishing is time wasted
~ Unknown
Life will only last so long, but your dreams will go on forever.
~ Unknown
Dont work to live but live to work. And make the most of your life!
~ Unknown