Ambition Quotes - Page 12

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

What you desire is what you attract to yourself.

With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality.

Live for each second without hesitation

As long as we dare dream, we can occupy new land.

Self-confidence is your greatest virtue.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

Go realize your dreams.

If I keep pushing myself, I’ll finally be somebody. I’ll finally matter. I’ll finally arrive.” Nonsense. You won’t be satisfied. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seeing them all come true. You were meant for something more. Even if you could be known the world over, what does it matter if you have no time to be known by God?

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.

You have to conquer every mountain to realize the dream.

I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.

In every moment of choice, you create a new destiny.

You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that religion whose characteristics are charity, meekness, peaceableness, longsuffering, gentleness, forgiveness.

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

Keep exploring, you will discover new path.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal.

The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness

Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies.!

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.

I have a distinct air of myself standing amidst such a crowd of people. My eyes set above, looking at the tall building if it bespeaks a promising note. I don’t know how fair is life, All I know is I have a plan to alter the face of it, the way I choose. A purpose, a driving motive, and an obsession.

Early morning mist ghosted along the Orm, trailing above the water, rising and twisting. Wide and sleek and almost silent, the river curled through the valley, curved almost to the doors of the stone-terraced cottages sunk tight in the moorland. As soon as he was beyond sight of the mill gates, Manny ran, his step lighter, his boots crunching against the highway. The village was quiet now, and he could hear the faint cries of sheep on the hillside. He felt suddenly exultant at having acted decisively, felt the thrill of running away. Then he reasoned with himself that he wasn’t so much running away as running to something else—something better—running away to take charge of his future. He was improving his station in life, looking for work of his choosing.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

You can pursue your dreams by grace.

Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.

Let your ambitions fly, let nothing hold you back.

The only thing that satisfies the soul is passionate life.

Anyone can choose to have success, but only the patient ones will get rewarded by it. Be relentless in chasing your dreams.

That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

You have to passionately want it to possess it.

…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my blazer,for it was too much,of a thick layer,to what I am deep inside.” (Poem- Unambitious, Book- Ginger and Honey)

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

Today's politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and the bigwigs in finance have no ambition. There are too many who confuse the power that they got by their position as their own ability.

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such thing existed. And finally I decided that I would make boredom my subject matter. That I'd study it. That I'd become the world's leading authority on it. March, that was a red-letter day for humanity. What a field! What a domain! Titanic! Promethean! I trembled before it. I was inspired. I couldn't sleep. Ideas came in the night and I wrote them down, volumes of them. Strange that no one had gone after this systematically.Oh, melancholy, yes, but not modern boredom.

You are learner. With diligent practice, you will be an expert.

You don’t come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' — there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

Embrace the beauty of good moment.

The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.