We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
~ Goethe
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
~ David Starr Jordan
I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass children with bright eyes not being pushed around useful work that suits one's abilities plain tasty food and occasional satisfying nookie.
~ Paul Goodman
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
~ Robert Browning
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
~ Don Marquis
Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
~ Plutarch
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
~ Winston Churchill
Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.
~ St. Francis De Sales
Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
~ Vince Lombardi
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
~ David Riesman
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
~ Joseph Joubert
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
~ Edmund Burke
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.
~ Daniel H. Burnham
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
~ Shane Warne
In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.
~ Alexandra Fuller
In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not?
~ John Burdett
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
~ Bob Riley
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
~ Jim Henson
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
~ François De La Rochefoucauld
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
~ Henry Van Dyke
'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
~ Xavier Dolan
Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
~ Daniel Boone
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
~ Noah Webster
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
~ George W. Bush
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
~ Mitch Daniels
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all.
~ Lana Del Rey
It has been a long journey, but if you dream and have the ambition and want to work hard, then you can achieve.
~ Mo Farah
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
~ Barack Obama
I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.
~ Robbie Williams
As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.
~ Jarvis Cocker
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
~ Jonathan Swift
My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
~ Aldous Huxley
