Quotes about Ambition

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

Do things you've always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.