logo

Quotes About Ambition

Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
~ Mark Batterson
It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
~ Robert Fulghum
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
~ Livy
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
~ William Faulkner
I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
~ Dan Fouts
The best way to honor your dreams is to get them done!
~ Robin Sharma
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
~ James A. Garfield
Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
~ Marcel Proust
I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
~ William Shakespeare
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
~ Les Claypool
A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.
~ John Keats
Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.
~ William James
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
~ Jonas Salk
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
~ Pope John XXIII
I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
~ Edie Brickell
I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.
~ Serena Williams
When you stop hoping you start settling.
~ Valorie Burton
It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
I hope I'll die on stage at the age at 105, playing Peter Pan.
~ Joan Fontaine
Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.
~ Dhirubhai Ambani
Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.
~ Aaron Carter
Without hope we live in desire.
~ Dante Alighieri