Quotes About Ambition

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

A goal, a love and a dream give you total control over your body and your life.

Live the life you've dreamed

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

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

Love is the combination of everything we have ever set our sights on. What will you set your eyes upon?

To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams. For when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.

While looking for our place, we miss our calling. Looking under rocks for gold, while we should have been plucking stars.

My only purpose is to live a happy life and if I can't fulfill that purpose then my effort, courage and ambition isn't enough.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

America should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." President John F Kennedy 1961

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Today was the day a thousand dreams would die and a single dream would be born.

When you are perfect, is there anywhere else to go?

Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back "Is that what you'd do with wings?" She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back