Quotes about Ambition

As you move forward on your journey from where you are to where you want to be, you are going to have to confront your fears. Fear is natural. Whenever you start a new project, take on a new venture, or put yourself out there, there is usually fear. Unfortunately, most people let fear stop them from progress.

What is the why behind everything you do?

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

We are to process life by looking up to the Lord and into His Word for wisdom. James 3:14—15 (ESV) says, "If you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

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 — 16)

I want the flowers but not the work. Isn't that the way it is with many things in life—we want the results but have no desire to put in the work required?

If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do?

You clean and organize; you demand perfection—did you ever wonder why?