Quotes About Ambition

Happiness is the byproduct of fulfilled dreams.

Have a choice, learn the process, and then go for the success.

Live in your dream and then make it your reality.

Success creates momentum for the next success.

The worst enemies of success are fear and doubt.

There is always something beautiful to hope for. Always have a goal to shoot for.

To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have.

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

You take the first steps to success when you feel hungry for change.

Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.

If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don't compromise, and don't waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

man can live or work far beyond the earth's atmosphere … the first nation to do this will control the earth.

When I was in high school, all my friends said they were going to be writers. And I thought, How come you get to be a writer, and I don't? I thought WRITER was written on their foreheads and they saw it when they looked in the mirror, and I sure didn't see it when I looked in the mirror. I always thought of writing as holy. I still do.

He doesn't talk about his past, or his future. He passionately wants to make something of his life, to make an offering to the world. And to his family. He doesn't want to make letterheads! How can he be true to himself and keep the bond with his family?

After all, we're in the midst of life—well then, we must fight a good fight—and we must become men. —Vincent to Theo, May 31, 1877

Today vegetables. Tomorrow...the world!

I am not okay. Not at all and haven´t been for some time. I did not tell her how discouraged I felt and that I was ashamed I was not more resilient an all the rest of it which included wanting a bigger life but that so far I had not been bold enough to make a bid for things I wanted to happen....

In fact I would be content to live in a humble wooden cabin on the edge of an ocean or a lake, but somehow I looked down on myself for not having a bigger dream.

To do the things she had chosen to do in the world, she risked forfeiting her place as a wife and mother, a bewildering place haunted by all that had been imagined for her if she chose to sit in it.

I knew I wanted to be a writer more than anything else in the world, but I was overwhelmed by everything and didn't know where to start.

The only way to fail is to not try.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.