Quotes about Ambition

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.

Best way to predict your future is to create it.

Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it! For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.

More important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

If you are not doing what you love, then start doing it, even if it is only part-time.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.