Ambition Quotes - Page 5

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

May you soar higher and higher, to uphold heavenly blessings.

True friends don't come with conditions.

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner

A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

I do not like the situation but must endure to fulfil the dream.

In life your expectations and disappointments are directly linked. So too is your heartfulness and your contentedness

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold.

Be daring, be passionate and persistently pursue your dreams.

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way. That was Mama. Fire and ice.

If you are my food, how am I supposed to feel pity towards you? That would mean starvation for me. “A hungry leopard told a fallen, panting, imploring gazelle

Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us—to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.

I want my writing to bring people not just to think of "trees" as they mostly do now, but of each individual tree, and each kind of tree.

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

Whatever you set for yourself, you can achieve it.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Cecil: “A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.

Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Keep on exploring.Keep on evolving.Keep on experimenting.

Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.’

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should consent in commending goodness, and no man endeavour to deserve that commendation; whilst, on the contrary, all rail at wickedness, and all are as eager to be what they abuse.

Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams.

Politicians know it's a game of power, every politician at every level, even in the common of mortals.

The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head of the Ferris band marched the drum majorette. A crimson and white shako crowned her long dark hair which flew out behind her and across her radiant face flushed with excitement. Her blue eyes flashed and her smile registered triumph at having been chosen.

Work with great zeal.

With a burning ambition, sustained focus, and daily action - there simply are no limits to what you will achieve.

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

Ambition is greed without makeup.

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

As regards the artists themselves, most of them gave up their freedom quite lightly, placing their art at the service of someone or something. As a rule, their concerns and their ambitions are those of any old careerist. I thus acquired a total distrust of art and artists, whether they were officially recognised or were endeavouring to become so, and I felt that I had nothing in common with this guild. I had a point of reference which held me elsewhere, namely that magic within art which I had encountered as a child.

Self-confidence and self-seeking are the greatest virtues.

It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.

I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.