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Quotes About Ambition

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
~ Oprah Winfrey
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Define for yourselves your directions.
~ Oren Lyons
Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted
~ Orison Swett Marden
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
~ Orison Swett Marden
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
~ Orison Swett Marden
A will finds a way.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
~ Orison Swett Marden
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desires
~ Orison Swett Marden
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
~ Orlando Bloom
You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.
~ Orrin Woodward
More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin.
~ Orrin Woodward
You won't find your dream until you lose your excuses.
~ Orrin Woodward