Quotes About Ambition

Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently,' Thoreau had written in Walden, 'in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common

We weren't there to take over, we were there, in our own minds, to discover . And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.

But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want.

She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.

Remove this quote from your collection "But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exciting. Yes. I suppose it is. A whole life in front of you. A whole life. You could do anything, live anywhere.

Nora had no idea what success was. She had felt like a failure for so long.

Maybe she just had no incentive to swim above the line [...]. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change [...]. A starfish in every life is still a starfish. There isn't a life where a starfish is a professor of aerospace engineering.

As I always say: If you want to do it, you can do it. The question is: Do you want to do it? ?Nellie Bly

So I was sitting behind the console looking at all these bands and thinking, "Most of the lyrics these guys are singing are pretty dreadful. I know I can do better than that." But I didn't want to be the guy singing, so I came up with this idea: maybe what I'll do is find a band and write the material, and they'll produce the material and I'll promote the band out there doing my songs.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

If your God complex is one in which you seek only to gain and never to give, you'll always look at the success of others with resentment." "You

He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;

It is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, Be ye holy, for I am holy; but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, He who exalts himself shall be abased.

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo, the great Renaissance artist and poet, knew the value, power, and need for dreams when he wrote, "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Our

You cannot live without dreams. Dreams foster hope, and hope is one of the forces by which men and women live.

Help your employees in the direction of their dreams and you will create the most dynamic environment in corporate America!

Dreams bring us to life. Dreams animate us, and what dreams do for the individuals, they also do for relationships . . . and companies.

The pursuit of dreams creates passion, energy, enthusiasm, and vitality.

Dreams are the core of every person. It is there that our passion for life is ignited.