Quotes about Ambition

Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.

Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

High and holy ambition--to be a saint--is not opposed to holy humility--total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility.

But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands.

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.

I was always anxious about whether I'd find a career I loved or be able to afford to buy a house.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14)

Normally, we're never satisfied.