Quotes about Ambition
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
— Heinrich Heine
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.
— Zig Ziglar
If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.
— Andy Andrews
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
— St. Augustine
If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.
— John Maxwell
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
— Albert Einstein
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
— Samuel Johnson
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be happy with what we want when we are in pursuit of what we want.
— Jim Rohn
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
— Marty Rubin
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
— Peter Drucker