Quotes about Ambition

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

what you can image you can be.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert, for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of a lack of ability or a lack of ambition. I am not deficient in either of these qualities!