Quotes About Ambition

Starting a business is one of the most exhilarating, and frightening, things you can do in a lifetime.

The devil doesn't come to you with a red face and horns, he comes to you disguised as everything you've ever wanted.

The life you're capable of living is waiting for you—all you have to do is choose to go after it.

The only way to become a doer is to find something worth doing.

To size up your readiness to take the leap into entrepreneurship, there are a number of questions to ask yourself.

You can either choose to wait around and hope life gives you what you want—or you can choose to jump up and put in the work to make your dream come true.

Your dream is always valid until you lose moral to chase it.

Happy talk,Keep talkin' happy talk,Talk about t'ings you like to do.You gotta have a dream;If you don't have a dreamHow you gonna have a dream come true?

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true (South Pacific)

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Dreaming about a thing in order to do it properly is right; but dreaming about it when we should be doing it is wrong.

We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks.

Our reach must exceed our grasp.

ABELARDO I: [...] Foi a bala do cano que penetrou profundamente, a primeira... As outras rodearam o coração! Que dor... Decerto é porque o coração ficou intacto... O coração, esse útero do homem, onde a gente gera os filhos mais caros... a ambição, o desespero, a vontade de viver... a literatura...

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Now came the question, what should I do? "Nothing," the correct thing, according to the governor. "Stand for the county," my mother suggested. "Go as attaché to my cousin, the envoy to St. Petersburg," my relatives opined, who had triumphed, with much unholy glory, over my rustication, as is the custom of relatives from time immemorial.

forget wishing. your missing the ambition of your mission

fuck wishing. you're missing the ambition on your mission.

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.

In moderation, goals and other external motivators are powerful, but when they become the exclusive drives to do anything, it's overwhelming.