Ambition Quotes

The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.

~ F.k. Preston

The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

~ Habeeb Akande

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.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

~ Suzy Kassem

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

~ Suzy Kassem

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

~ Suzy Kassem

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

~ Criss Jami

If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you — envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.

~ Suzy Kassem

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.

~ Charbel Tadros

I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those legends in Russia, confirmed by Passek, Sleptsov and others, that one only has to come to the Caucasus to be showered with decorations. Everyone expects it of us, demands it of us. But I've been here two years, taken part in two expeditions and received nothing. For all that, I've so much pride that I won't leave this place until I'm a major, with an Anna or a Vladimir round my neck. I've reached the point where it really rankles when some Gnilokishkin is decorated and I'm not. What's more, how could I look my elder in the face again, or merchant Kotel'nikov to whom I sell grain, or my aunt in Moscow and all those fine gentlemen in Russia, if I return after two years in the Caucasus with nothing to show for it? No, I don't want to know those gentlemen and I'm sure that they couldn't care less about me. But such is man's nature that though I couldn't give a damn about them they're the reason why I'm ruining the best years of my life, my happiness and whole future.

~ Leo Tolstoy

The greatest musicians never cared to be rock stars. They just wanted to play. The greatest actors never cared to be movie stars they just loved their craft. The greatest artists painted on canvas to fill their own hearts. It’s how we truly feel about things in life that will determine our success.

~ Ron Baratono

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I set goals…I take chances…I dare to achieve…I win…I lose…I don’t quit…It’s my life and I’m not afraid to LIVE it!I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.

~ Steve Maraboli

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.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Be driven by your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Awake. Reach out. Press onward.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, we must travel on the longest path to our sacred-destination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The achievement of dreams demands 100 percent dedication.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the will power and begin to chase your dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

~ H.w. Brands

Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you dream of is a possibility.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

One great concern that plagues very ambitious people is this: in the end, they’ll get all the precious things they ever dreamed of and every precious accomplishment most expected and conceived they’d achieve . . . but on that path of ambition, they’d lose precious moments with the most precious people they’ve come across. However, they forge ahead on that path hoping, somehow, they might make up for it, sometime, in future.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.

~ Mohammed Ali Bapir

With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What God want me to be, I shall be by His grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Erosion of corruption is ambition of a nation. Sow the revolution or go for contribution; if not, opt corroboration.

~ Vikrmn

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

~ John Burroughs

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.

~ Sherwood Anderson

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.

~ Annie Fellows Johnston

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?

~ Félix J. Palma

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books, and you get a bookshelf-warping total of twenty-eight million books available for an English reader in the next fifty years! But you can read only 2,600 - because you are a wildly ambitious book devourer. ... For every one book that you choose to read, you must ignore ten thousand other books simply because you don't have the time (or money!).

~ Tony Reinke

With a burning ambition, sustained focus, and daily action - there simply are no limits to what you will achieve.

~ Curtis Rivers

To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

~ Criss Jami

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

~ Criss Jami

The petty man wants to use God for himself, the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

~ Criss Jami