Ambition Quotes - Page 8

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

Nothing can replace confidence and single-minded pursuit of purpose.

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one

Momentum builds success.

My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.

Golden possibilities exist in every adversity.

The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.

The world of possibility exists in everyday life.

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

Every successful man knows what a persevering life it was to achieve his goal.

Ambitions are like assholes, and they smell like flowers to the owner. I must be delusional. Give it up.

Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams.

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

What God want me to be, I shall be by His grace.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness.

The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.

...people who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for.

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

Everything is within the limit of possibility.

Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.

We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

The Golden Mean is for the weakling, it was not meant for the likes of Alexander the Great, Cyrus, Pharaohs, or Hitlers of the world

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

If ever the adventure proves tiring, or you lose sight of your dream, look to the west at sunset. There, on days when the skies are clear, you might see upon the horizon a thin layer of amber mist. When it appears, you will know its purpose: it is the mist of believing.

May you find courage, faith and hope to live your dreams.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

The will to dare, the power to act.

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

I take pleasure in an excellent work done.

So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success.

It is better to dare than fear.

Greatness should have no victimsGreatness should need no victims.

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the raw edges of the word; and in between puffs, we would smile, and dream of owning those streets, dreaming the same dreams that we scorned others for.

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit.