Quotes about Ambition

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Oh! my ministering brethren! Much of our praying is but giving God advice! Our praying is discolored with ambition, either for ourselves or for our denomination. Perish the thought! Our goal must be God alone. It is His honor that is sullied, His blessed Son who is ignored, His laws broken, His name profaned, His Book forgotten, His house made a circus of social efforts.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.