Ambition Quotes

The piercing fanfare of the brass against the brutal boom and rattle of the drums surged through the air. At the head of the Ferris band marched the drum majorette. A crimson and white shako crowned her long dark hair which flew out behind her and across her radiant face flushed with excitement. Her blue eyes flashed and her smile registered triumph at having been chosen.

~ Clark Zlotchew

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.

~ Dave Matthes

To be fully alive, you must never stop dreaming.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I work with great gladness for what I want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never happens.One becomes afraid of love, because love opens the inner emptiness.Love is not an effort. If love is an effort, it is not love.It is the same case with the ultimate experience, it happens when you do not make an effort. Then you can simply float with the river to the Ocean.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

~ 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.

~ Amit Kalantri

Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.

~ Amit Kalantri

People won't respect you until you achieve the respectable goals.

~ Amit Kalantri

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.

~ Amit Kalantri

We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug. 

~ Edward Abbey

... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

~ Maya Banks

I never wanted to feel ashamed for striving, for desiring, for ambition. And I never wanted to judge another woman, or anyone, for that matter, for their own aspirations, even if they differed from my own

~ Carrie Brownstein

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

~ Maggie Georgiana Young

The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.

~ Emilie Buchwald

The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

~ Arun Joshi

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren't so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the ones who feed off of opposition and negative feedback and manage to continue along with a healthy ambition. It is the crazy that teaches us to use our gifts wisely and own all the attackers.

~ Criss Jami

You possess great strength and vitality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my blazer,for it was too much,of a thick layer,to what I am deep inside.” (Poem- Unambitious, Book- Ginger and Honey)

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.

~ Marty Rubin

What a great pleasure to work for your living?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

~ Criss Jami

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.

~ Grigoris Deoudis

...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?

~ Henry Fielding

When you encounter obstacles, don’t turn your back on them. Face them, confront them and your will see them dissolving in front of your eyes.

~ Roopleen

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.

~ Habeeb Akande

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and, little by little, begins to rule us. Already in The Joke: “I came to realize that there was no power capable of changing the image of my person lodged somewhere in the supreme court of human destinies; that this image (even though it bore no resemblance to me) was much more real than my actual self; that I was its shadow and not it mine; that I had no right to accuse it of bearing no resemblance to me, but rather that it was I who was guilty of the nonresemblance; and that the nonresemblance was my cross, which I could not unload on anyone else, which was mine alone to bear.”And in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: “Destiny has no intention of lifting a finger for Mirek (for his happiness, his security, his good spirits, his health), whereas Mirek is ready to do everything for his destiny (for its grandeur, its clarity, its beauty, its style, its intelligible meaning). He felt responsible for his destiny, but his destiny did not feel responsible for him.

~ Milan Kundera

I saw only the reality of his destiny, which he had knownhow to follow with unfaltering footsteps, that life begun in humblesurroundings, rich in generous enthusiasms, in friendship, love, war--inall the exalted elements of romance.

~ Joseph Conrad

To be myself, to follow my desires to the best of my abilities. That’s the only end worth shooting for. Success and failure lie beyond us, they may be signposts that direct us, but they are foolish goals in themselves. To truly be who I have been made to be, made myself to be, ah, that is the only mission worthy of all the life that flows within.

~ James Rozoff

Do not exchange the 24 hours for money. Give some time for your own accomplishments.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must explore the timeless opportunities in life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be the great person you ought to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to climb higher heights.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a great adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God will generously give you wisdom, if thy will ask.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The holy writings are my greatest inspiration.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The obstacles were intended to be a distraction from the goal.You must keep a persistence focus to realise the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God's grace is your inner strength.Go ahead and pursue your God-given dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita