Quotes about Ambition

Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is vision.

James and John have been asking for the places at Jesus's right and left so as to accompany him as he completes the glorious work of bringing in God's kingdom, defeating all the powers that have held the human race captive. But those places are reserved for the two who are crucified alongside him as he hangs there with "King of the Jews" above his head.

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

Money wont create success, the fredom to make it will

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation.

It is not my ambition to marry a white woman or swim in a white pool. It is political equality that we want.

Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words and your faith stronger than your feelings.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person