Quotes about Ambition

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

They have seen in his [Senator Stephen A. Douglas's] round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. . . . Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

I'd tell my 20-year-old self, 'Don't be afraid to do it all. Whatever you're interested in, just go for it. Don't wait around for a better time.'

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.