Quotes about Ambition

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days...

A sin is not mortified when it is only diverted. Simon Magus for a season left his sorceries; but his covetousness and ambition, that set him on work, remained still, and would have been acting another way. Therefore Peter tells him, "I perceive thou art in the gall of bitterness;"—"Notwithstanding

Hast thou permitted worldliness, ambition, greediness of study, to eat up other duties, the duties wherein thou oughtest to hold constant communion with God, for some long season?

Don't wish upon a star, reach for one.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

The Lord would want you to be successful. He would. You are His sons and His daughters. He has the same kind of love and ambition for you that your earthly parents have. They want you to do well and you can do it.

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in you heart.

Vision is the foundation of courage and the fuel of persistence.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.