Quotes about Ambition
No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.
— Isabel Allende
To serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.
— Isabel Allende
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
— Isabel Allende
It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.
— Bruce Wilkinson
In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.
— John Adams
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
— Anonymous
What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
— Marcus Aurelius