Ambition Quotes
Maya Angelou
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
1192 Roman Payne
She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.
4779 Roman Payne
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.
1319 Roman Payne
I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.
1954 Roman Payne
When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.
1592 Lailah Gifty Akita
Your thoughts and your words define your life. Think positively and affirm positive words to enrich your life positively.
2051 Donald Trump
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
3429 Lena Dunham
Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put
4241 Anthony Liccione
The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.
1043 Bryant McGill
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
1227 Habeeb Akande
The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.
3349 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
2366 Félix J. Palma
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
4239 Roman Payne
I’ve decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I’ve been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.
1665 Mohammed Ali Bapir
Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.
3688 Amit Kalantri
I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.
2550 Amit Kalantri
You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.
1258 Darnell Lamont Walker
Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?
4019 Steve Jobs
Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.
2027 Noel DeJesus
Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?
3703 Richard Koch
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
3321 Benedict Cumberbatch
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
1959 George Lois
If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.
1696 Jane Yolen
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
1824 Stefan Zweig
There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.
3545 Sidney Sheldon
Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?
4701 Dylan Moran
People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'"
[What It Is (2009)]
2585 Elton John
Live for each second without hesitation
2053 Haruki Murakami
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
2246 Richelle E. Goodrich
Never give up.
It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.
2832 Louis L'Amour
I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.
3136 Lana Del Rey
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
3934 Alex Rogers
Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.
3267 Rabindranath Tagore
The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition
2433 K.L. Toth
You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.
1798 Marty Rubin
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
2544 Mary Shelley
Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
2864 Toni Sorenson
The truest of all truths is this: You are a child of God. Out of more than six billion people on earth now, He knows your name, what you fear and what you revere. He cares about the things you care about. He wants your happiness and success, and will reach to the farthest corner of the universe to see that you obtain your noblest dreams.
3210 Dave Matthes
I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.
1994 Damien Echols
Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.
2398 Jonas Salk
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
4491 Daniel Wallace
He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.
3005 Dave Matthes
Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.
2376 Dave Matthes
...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.
4378 Dave Matthes
Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I've found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to tip the scales.
2549 Dave Matthes
Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?
3674 Dave Matthes
So you mean to tell me you won't fuck anyone you don't share some kind of deep emotional connection with? What a sad, depressing, truly horrible life you must lead...
4906 Bauvard
Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or department store after her husband starts coming home drunk.
2025 Annie Fellows Johnston
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.
2385 Bauvard
Modern wife: A position thought to require great ambition to fill. After initially showing some skill at a maid service or department store, the husband takes her home to find that she has risen too high in the world to generalize that skill, which drives him to drink.
2643 Alan Lightman
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
4418 Chuck Palahniuk
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
4774 Darnell Houston
I've learned one thing about life. There are so many chapters. Where one chapter ends another one begins. The book is never finished.
And I love reading.
1058 Maggie Young
Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.
4610 Martina Boone
It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.
4775 Noel DeJesus
Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me.
3995 Noel DeJesus
At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
2835 Noel DeJesus
At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
2881 Noel DeJesus
Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.
4200 Noel DeJesus
You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.
4171 Noel DeJesus
If you scared, say you scared, and if not then push yourself off of that wall and step into the darkness. That's where success is, get up out of that comfort zone, you'll be surprised what you can achieve!
1406 A.M.M Alusi
You can't achieve what you can't imagine being done
3440 Shannon A. Thompson
Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.
3424 Bryant McGill
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
1452 Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.
3346 Girdhar Joshi
Here you can easily understand the futility of ambitions and achievements, futility of success and failures, futility of wealth and possessions.
2149 Carl Henegan
It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but you know this…you are already there.
4944 Kevin Michel
In every moment of choice, you create a new destiny.
2808 Salvador Dalí
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
3135 Sara Sheridan
I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.
4468 Amah Lambert
We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.
2495 Akul Singh
The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly
1517 Roman Payne
With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.
2836 ALAgrApHY
Whether you seek the prettiest rose despite the size of its thorns or praise a mediocre plant for the sake of its thorns, the plant's beauty remains subjective.
3557 Heather Choate Davis
Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church - even if we have, and vowed never to go back - deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.
2855 Brian L. Weiss
Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.
2789 J.M. August
I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
3863 Grigoris Deoudis
Prosperity cannot be experienced by living detached from Nature. Everything else is only a gradation of materialistic, earthly ambitions. We came from the stars and there lies the path to our substantive evolution.
3902 Mary Stewart
Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it.
1831 Amit Kalantri
The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.
4287 Amit Kalantri
If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.
1417 Amit Kalantri
Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.
1823 Amit Kalantri
People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.
2279 Amit Kalantri
Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.
3609 Amit Kalantri
You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.
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