Ambition Quotes

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your DreamsDistance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life.Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

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?

~ Sidney Sheldon

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!' (2009)]

~ Dylan Moran

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

~ Donald Miller

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

~ Criss Jami

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

~ Maya Angelou

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.

~ Lana Del Rey

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.

~ Louis L'amour

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.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.

~ Suzy Kassem

You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

~ K.l. Toth

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.

~ Alex Rogers

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

~ Suzy Kassem

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression.And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

~ Joseph Conrad

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

~ Joseph Conrad

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

~ Damien Echols

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.

~ Toni Sorenson

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

~ Joe Vigil

The possibility of the dream gives strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

~ Suzy Kassem

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

~ Marty Rubin

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

~ Roman Payne

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

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.

~ Daniel Wallace

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

~ Jonas Salk

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

~ Suzy Kassem

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

~ Criss Jami

Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

As long as we have children seeking unrealistic dreams, anything is possible.

~ H.s. Crow

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

~ Aaron Lauritsen

From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

~ Aaron Lauritsen

True friends don't come with conditions.

~ Aaron Lauritsen

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