Ambition Quotes

May you find grace to accomplish your God given-goals.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Go realize your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success should be an ambition within the parameters of Purpose.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

In every moment of choice, you create a new destiny.

~ Kevin Michel

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

~ Richard Koch

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

~ Jane Yolen

Success come only through high ambition, good guidance, strong will, determining and effort.

~ Santonu Kumar Dhar

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

~ Sylvia Plath

Your vision will determine your future, mirror only helps you to see your ugly or beautiful face, but only the vision you have can take you far beyond your expectations and imaginations in life.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

...he lacked the sort of ambition that JB and Jude had, that grim, trudging determination that kept them at the studio or office longer than anyone else, that gave them that slightly faraway look in their eyes that always made him think a fraction of them was already living in some imagined future, the contours of which were crystallized only to them.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

~ Moffat Machingura

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

~ Fennel Hudson

Quit beating yourself up, beat your goals up instead.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

~ Italo Calvino

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

~ Gustave Flaubert

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

~ Peter Kreeft

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

(I) want to do everything and see everything, sense everything and feel everything and taste everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used. To be in the world, and of the world, and never to stand aside and watch.

~ Samuel Taylor

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

~ Orson Scott Card

If you wanted to be the best then you had to swallow your pride and become a student of the game first.

~ Jon Osborne

With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must keep on learning for self-development.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I am so glad; I had the opportunity to study at University of Jena, the city of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I’d be glad to go out on a limb with thoseWho want nothing beyond what the wind bestows,Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bearNever being done grasping for light and air

~ X.j. Kennedy

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

~ Amit Kalantri

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift—She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief.

~ Homer

There werethings, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only hehad lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot--he forgot. The lighthad destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distantshadows.

~ Joseph Conrad

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold.

~ Roman Payne

May you soar higher and higher, to uphold heavenly blessings.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can pursue your dreams by grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessation of his sensuous life, the soul of man, or its organs rather, are reinvigorated each day, and his Genius tries again what noble life it can make... The Vedas say, All intelligences awake with the morning. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you will definitely arrive at your destination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita