Quotes about Ambition

A goal is the ongoing pursuit of a worthy objective until accomplished.

A goal that is not measurable is just wishful thinking.

You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.

If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don't have enough goals.

As you move forward on your journey from where you are to where you want to be, you are going to have to confront your fears. Fear is natural. Whenever you start a new project, take on a new venture, or put yourself out there, there is usually fear. Unfortunately, most people let fear stop them from progress.

What is the why behind everything you do?

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

We are to process life by looking up to the Lord and into His Word for wisdom. James 3:14—15 (ESV) says, "If you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.