Quotes about Ambition
If you are sufficient for your task it's too small.
— John Piper
Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don't coast through life without a passion.
— John Piper
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
— John Quincy Adams
Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.
— John Wooden
Let [the youth be directed to something better than display, ambition, or self-indulgence. Bring them in contact with truer beauty, with loftier principles, and with nobler lives. Lead them to behold the One "altogether lovely.
— Ellen White
The proud may be for a time in great power, and may see success in all that they undertake; but in the end they will find only disappointment and wretchedness.
— Ellen White
Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.
— Ellen Glasgow
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
— Barbara Kingsolver
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
— Thomas Merton
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.
— Joel Osteen