Ambition Quotes

More quotes on Achieving What You Want


The noblest spirit is most stronglyattracted by the love of glory.

Marcus T. Cicero



I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

John D. Rockefeller



Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain



Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
Judith M. Bardwick



We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Anon



From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,And when at last the fight is won,God, keep me still unsatisfied.

Louis Utermeyer



Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Kahlil Gibran

Quotes about Hard Work

When ambition ends,happiness begins.

Hungarian Proverb



First say to yourself what you would be;and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus



Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese



The men who succeed are theefficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and willpower to develop themselves.

Herbert N. Casson



Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.



Watch out!



Most people would succeed insmall things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Taoist View

More Tao Quotes

In order to master people
One must speak as their servant;
In order to lead people
One must follow them.

Tao Te Ching

Straighten yourself and you will not stand steady;
Display yourself and you will not be clearly seen;
Justify yourself and you will not be respected;
Promote yourself and you will not be believed;
Pride yourself and you will not endure.
Tao Te Ching

Here's to the future to the dreams of youth It's not much I'm asking if you want the truth I want it all I want it all and I want it NOW!

I want it all(Queen)