Quotes about Ambition

Enough of little lives led by little people, crumpling under the weight of stress. And enough of empty ambition masquerading as something grand yet marked by the numbing effects of a vacant heart.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

When you talk of your journey and of what you have heard and seen, you inwardly desire your own glory in all you do and say.

The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential