Quotes About Ambition

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

There was simply the sense that she had found wings, and meant to use them.

The aims of battle and the fruits of conquest are never the same;

Money: give Mr Bast money, and don't bother about his ideals. He'll pick those up for himself.

You've not been content to dream, as we have.

They had all passed up that narrow, rich staircase at Wickham Place to some ample room, whither he could never follow them, not if he read for ten hours a day. Oh, it was no good, this continual aspiration. Some are born cultured; the rest had better go in for whatever comes easy. To see life steadily and to see it whole was not for the likes of him.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail. --Bunny

A man's reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. It's the person who says, "I'm going to become this and then progressively works toward that goal.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free — our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

But most people live a life of quiet mediocrity and never achieve the success they truly desire because they get impatient. They want easy success or none at all. They see the path to success as a frustration, an impediment. Each day spent short of the ultimate goal is viewed as a time of failure and as an annoyance. As such, they get distracted by hundreds of little things that each day try to get us off our course. Yet the successful among us know the truth:

There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard.

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal