Quotes about Ambition
The only way to get what you ultimately want is to deny yourself short-term pleasures that interfere with your goal.
— Dennis Prager
A simple test to ascertain how much you enjoy and derive meaning from your work is to ask yourself whether you would continue doing it if you won the lottery.
— Dennis Prager
Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!
— Denzel Washington
I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.
— Hillary Clinton
Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.
— J. Oswald Sanders
All Christians are called to develop God-given talents, to make the most of their lives, and to develop to the fullest their God-given gifts and capabilities. But Jesus taught that ambition that centers on the self is wrong.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Holy ambition has always been surrounded by distortions.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
— Dale Carnegie
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
— Dale Carnegie
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
— Dale Carnegie