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Quotes About Ambition

The greatest 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
You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.
~ Mike Murdock
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe
~ Oprah Winfrey
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
~ Victor Hugo
To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
~ Ric Flair
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
~ Washington Irving
You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.
~ Myles Munroe
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
~ Garry Shandling
My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.
~ Amy Weber
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams
~ The Rev
The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
~ Michelangelo
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
~ John Lennon
When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.
~ Stevie Wonder
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
~ Mark Twain
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
~ John Ruskin
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
~ Abraham Lincoln
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
~ Roger Staubach
We write our own destiny ...we become what we do.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
~ John Steinbeck