Quotes about Ambition

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

The only failure is not to try.