Quotes about Ambition

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.

Destiny is not for comfort seekers. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to endure some discomfort, delay gratification, and go where Destiny leads.

When you live your own dream, you don't have time to be a hater.

The fact that you yearn for more doesn't mean you're ungrateful for what you have or that you're greedy. It means you have a higher calling. The yearning inside calls you.

When you stop relying on others or blaming others or waiting on others to go kill something and bring it back for you to eat, you realize you have to go hunt and kill for yourself. You don't complain about what you lack or let setbacks get in the way of finding a way to make your dreams happen. You just go do it.

Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.