Quotes about Ambition

quote from Dexter Yager: "You will never leave where you are until you decide where you'd rather be.

Make your dreams bigger than your memories

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

You were born to work, so why do you look for rest?

A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.

Things move on quickly in football. You win the FA Cup: 'So?' We won the league the next year: 'So what? Go out and win it again.'

If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.