Quotes about Ambition
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
— John Adams
When you talk of your journey and of what you have heard and seen, you inwardly desire your own glory in all you do and say.
— John Bunyan
The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend; For Iperceive
— John Bunyan
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
— John Maxwell
A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential
— John Maxwell
A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.
— John Maxwell
Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
— John Maxwell
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
— John Maxwell
A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.
— John Maxwell
Do you know the difference between leaders, followers, and losers? Leaders stretch with challenges. Followers struggle with challenges. Losers shrink from challenges.
— John Maxwell
If you know who you are, make the changes you must in order to learn and grow, and then give everything you've got to your dreams, you can achieve anything your heart desires.
— John Maxwell
Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.
— John Maxwell