Ambition Quotes - Page 3

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

The only real certainty is that if you get to live, you gotta die. Live life now.

With persistent focus, commitment and enthusiasm, your dream will be reality.

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

Live for each second without hesitation

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Be daring, be passionate and persistently pursue your dreams.

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.

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

(...)"Take your time, because thereisn’t a moment to spare,(...) That’s what Stein told me when I had to leave Menakfor the first time. It kind of means that wherever yourdestination is, now is the time to start working towards it,or you will never get there.

When we fail, we think that is the end of life. Actually, it is the beginning of a greater life when we persistently preserved.

I have heard many a young unmarried lady exclaim with a bold sweep of conception, “Ah me! I wish I were a widow!” Mrs. Keith was precisely the widow that young unmarried ladies wish to be. With her diamonds in her dressing-case and her carriage in her stable, and without a feather’s weight of encumbrance, she offered a finished example of satisfied ambition.

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

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

You don’t come to live here unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isn’t a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' — there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a little glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up. Of course, she didn't really know that till she did come to be grown up, but she had her first dim notion of it in that moment, and it made her feel the way you do when you're learning to skate and somebody pulls away the chair you've been leaning on and says, "Now, go it alone!

So often we quit on the first failure. We must persistent long enough to achieve success.

The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

I will be all that I am capable of being.

I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.

On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.

Life must be live daringly.

Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb.

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.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

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.

The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.

The world of possibility exists in everyday life.

We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further, trying to fly higher… and falling.

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Talents too many, not enough of any.

Miss Tick sniffed. 'You could say this advice is priceless,' she said. 'Are you listening?''Yes,' said Tiffany.'Good. Now ... if you trust in yourself ...''Yes?''... and believe in your dreams ...''Yes?''... and follow your star ...' Miss Tick went on.'Yes?''... you'll still get beaten by people who spent THEIR time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

Be enthusiastic.

Work with great zeal.

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route destruction!

Clear skin, a manicure, a couple dead zombies, and then fame!

What needs to be done must be done. With grace, it will be done.

be much more friendly to such things that matter most .Things that will propel your vision and ambition to higher heights. Things that will help you enlarge your tentacles. Do not look down on small things however

We must graciously endure the times.

Spending time with people without ambition is a self-destruction.

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

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.

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

Life is Ambition, not for Survive but for Be Better each second, for Superate your Records and to Get your Goals.All the rest is a Redundant Speech & a Boring Literature.You Decide the Direction of your Life, but remains Inspired and Assume all the Consequences.Complacency is Death”.