Quotes about Ambition
price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
— LM Montgomery
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
— Abraham Lincoln
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
— Abraham Lincoln
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
— Abraham Lincoln
Towering genius disdains a beaten path... It sees no distinction in adding story to story... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it...
— Abraham Lincoln
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition... I have no other so great as that of being truely esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
— Abraham Lincoln
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
— Abraham Lincoln
If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.
— Abraham Lincoln
Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.
— Abraham Lincoln
No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
— Abraham Lincoln
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.
— Abraham Lincoln
Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
— Aesop