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Quotes About Ambition

If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.
~ Kurt Warner
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
~ Orison Swett Marden
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.
~ James Madison
A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
~ Barack Obama
This is not about going back. This is about life being ahead of you and you run at it! Because you never know how far you can run unless you run.
~ Penny Chenery Secretariat
Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It's impossible, that's for sure. So let's start working.
~ Philippe Petit, Man on Wire
If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
~ Rosalynn Carter
Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.
~ Charles Stewart Parnell
The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.
~ Malala Yousafzai
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
~ Amy Grant
Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.
~ Larry Bird
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
~ Marquis de Sade
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
~ John Locke
You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.
~ Lyoto Machida
The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it; making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.
~ Young Buck
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
~ Michel de Montaigne
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
~ Carl Sandburg
With strength to lift mountains and spirit to take on the World
~ Xiang Yu
Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.
~ Merle Shain
The strength of your life is measured by the strength of your will.
~ Henry Van Dyke
It is in the realm of uncertainty, that your passion is found.
~ Tony Robbins
You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
~ Albert Einstein