Quotes about Ambition
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
— Robert Frost
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
— Les Brown
It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.
— Les Brown
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.
— Les Brown
If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take.
— Lewis Carroll
He was one of those men whom success never mollified, whose enjoyment of a point gained always demanded some hoarse note of triumph from his own trumpet.
— Lewis Carroll
One should never go anywhere without a porpoise.
— Lewis Carroll
Rather than compete for what was never meant for you . . . you would have the energy to discover what is yours.
— Lisa Bevere
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
— William Osler
When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.
— Les Brown