Quotes about Ambition

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Meaninglessness woos us into spending our one shot at life on insignificant and trivial things. If we are not vigilant, we drift from God's glorious ambition for our lives, losing sight of anything remotely grand, trading God-instilled passion for an easier and more often traveled road. And if our hearts aren't awakened by majesty, our lives soon shrink into little bits of nothingness.

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.

Chances are good that you once had a dream—a big, noble, beautiful dream—that you could envision coming true, but that dream was snatched away. An experience like that leaves you longing for a comeback.

Enough of little lives led by little people, crumpling under the weight of stress. And enough of empty ambition masquerading as something grand yet marked by the numbing effects of a vacant heart.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.