Quotes about Ambition

it is all wrong that a person who is going to be deemed worthy of the office should himself solicit it... for no one who is not ambitious would ask to hold office.

Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for.

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do what then thou would'st.

May the cheering contemplation of the glorious hope set before us—support and animate us to improve our short interval on earth, and fill us with a holy ambition of shining as lights in this evil world, to the praise and glory of His grace—who has called us out of darkness, into His glorious light!

Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.