Quotes about Ambition
I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.
— Fred Craddock
Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.
— Fred Smith
The world is evil only when you become its slave. The world has a lot to offer—just as Egypt did for the children of Jacob—as long as you don't feel bound to obey it. The great struggle facing you is not to leave the world, to reject your ambitions and aspirations, or to despise money, prestige, or success, but to claim your spiritual truth and to live in the world as someone who doesn't belong to it.
— Henri Nouwen
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
— Henry B. Eyring
Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
— Henry David Thoreau
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.
— Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
— Henry David Thoreau
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.
— Henry David Thoreau
If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?
— Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute?
— Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau
A voice said to him—Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you? Those same stars twinkle over other fields than these.—But how to come out of this condition and actually migrate thither? All that he could think of was to practise some new austerity, to let his mind descend into his body and redeem it, and treat himself with ever increasing respect.
— Henry David Thoreau