Quotes about Ambition

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Any dream is possible, if you have courage.

Great dreams require great courage.

In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

Indeed,"wrote C. S. Lewis142, "if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. GEORGE MARSHALL

We're going to win at space.

And above all, we must reduce drug use for one great moral reason: Over time, drugs rob men, women and children of their dignity, and of their character. Illegal (and legal) drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope. And when we fight against drugs, we fight for the souls of our fellow Americans

As C. S. Lewis put it, "Aim at heaven and you will get the earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.