Quotes about Ambition

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do what then thou would'st.

May the cheering contemplation of the glorious hope set before us—support and animate us to improve our short interval on earth, and fill us with a holy ambition of shining as lights in this evil world, to the praise and glory of His grace—who has called us out of darkness, into His glorious light!

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

If you are sufficient for your task it's too small.

Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

Let [the youth be directed to something better than display, ambition, or self-indulgence. Bring them in contact with truer beauty, with loftier principles, and with nobler lives. Lead them to behold the One "altogether lovely.

The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.

Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.