Quotes about Ambition
The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.
— Marianne Williamson
I choose not to remain at good today, but rather to answer the call to greatness.
— Marianne Williamson
What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.
— Mark Batterson
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
— Aristotle
it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.
— Aristotle
Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.
— Arthur C. Clarke
We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius
— Arthur C. Clarke
For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
— George Bernard Shaw
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
— George Eliot
You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.
— Maya Angelou