Quotes about Ambition

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Ben's chances in the campaign.

quote from Dexter Yager: "You will never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.

Make your dreams bigger than your memories

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.