Quotes About Ambition

We never know how high we are Till we are called to rise… Emily Dickinson Aspiration

Lucy deploraba su actitud y los motivos que él daba. Ella siempre se ofendía cuando él hablaba de unos objetivos en la vida diferentes a los suyos, como si estuviesen atacando sus decisiones y opiniones.

undertaking, they said, was too

In order to acheive you must dream, to dream you must desire, to desire you must love.

And even as the chariot of time hustles me along, I never forget that Bob Caro is coming up from behind with volume five of LBJ. I hope he makes it. I hope I make it.

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

46 B.C.E; Julius Ceasar becomes Dictator 44 B.C.E.; Julius Caesar becomes pincushion

For there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

The important thing to remember in life is that regardless of how bad you might end up gettin' treated, don't never let nobody with an agenda stop your train from makin' it to where it's goin'.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Build a dream and the dream will build you.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.

What Would You Attempt If You Knew You Could Not Fail?

Aspirations can cure headaches

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the rest.

There are men who, at the bottom of the ladder, battle to rise; they study, struggle, keep their wits alive and eventually get up to a place where they are received as an equal among respectable intellectuals. Here they find warmth and comfort for their pride, and here the struggle ends, and a death of many years commences. They could have gone on living.