Ambition Quotes

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

Fernando Lachica

Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down at muddied feet, and looking back the way you came. The journey you've taken to get to this point, the experiences and sights and music listened to, the shit scrolled down on paper. An empty bottle may hold more promise than a full one in that regard...

Let your ambitions fly. Let nothing hold you back.

Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

David Halberstam

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

John Taliaferro

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Hyman G. Rickover

The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

Stendhal

If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...

Assegid Habtewold

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.

Christiaan Huygens

People will drive by their high school ten years down the road, just so they can pretend that thinking "not much has changed" is actually true. When really, everything has changed. The air smells the same, but the roads have cracked more. The roads have cracked so much they now look like the skin on a crocodile's back. And all the fields, green in the summers, golden in the autumns, have all been paved over with new reasons to never come back.

To all the boys, for when you become men: you'll leave women all throughout your life because they're holding you back, and even after she's gone she'll still weigh you down. To all the women: stay away from us men. We don't know anything about you, despite what we try to convince you of.

Popularity makes no sense If your fame is a shame.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

Brandi L. Bates

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Capture your youth, while you can.

Anthony Liccione

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.

Christian D. Larson

Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.

Anthony Liccione

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Every successful man knows what a persevering life it was to achieve his goal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am a book lover. I buy, collect and read books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep moving, no matter how slow you move, you will definitely arrive at your destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

Moffat Machingura

Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.

Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find grace to accomplish your God given-goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What lies ahead is often unknown. But keep traveling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way

Constance Friday

Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

The only limit to the realisation of our goals will be lack of enthusiasm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I work with great gladness for what I want.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life will hack off your head and shit down your neck every chance it gets. I've found that consuming drugs and booze, listening to music and always having an excuse in the best way to tip the scales.

Failure is a teacher. It teaches what you ought to learn.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything is within the limit of possibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do all the work you while you still have strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as we dare dream, we can occupy new land.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not get lost in the flow of reality.

With great passion, observe every details of the sacred journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies.!

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

No experience is wasted. It is the stepping stones for a great success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more you think of the goal you have in view, the more life and power you will call into action in working for that goal. The more you think of your ambition, the more power you will give to those faculties that can make your ambitions come true. The more you think of harmony, of health, of success, of happiness, of things that are desirable, of things that are beautiful, of things that have true worth, the more the mind will tend to build all those things in yourself, provided, of course, that all such thinking is subjective.

Christian D. Larson

Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit

Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you read the Bible, the more transform your life will be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are capable of much more than you envisage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The unique fingerprint of every individual defines our unique purpose and mission on earth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him,a glimmer and a glint over those eyes,he knew how the world worked,and took pleasure in its wickedness.He would give a dime or two to those sitting on the street,he would tell them things like:"It won't get any better,"and"Might as well use this to buy your next fix,"and finally"It's better to die high than to live sober,"His suit was pressed nicely, with care and respect,like the kind a corpse wears,he'd say that was his way of honoring the dead,of always being ready for the oncoming train,I liked him,he never wore a fake smileand he was always ready to tell a story about how andwhen"We all wake up alone," he said once,"Oftentimes even when sleeping next to someone, we wake up before them and they are still asleep and suddenly we are awake, and alone."I didn't see him for a few days,a few days later it felt like it'd been weeks,those weeks drifted apart from one another,like leaves on a pond's surface,and became like months.And then I saw him and I asked him where he'd been,he said,"I woke up alone one day, just like any other, and I decided I didn't like it anymore.

The quickest way a person can defame your character is by taking something you said out of context. But Fear Not. Everyone that was ever Anyone always had their words taken out of context. If you can't handle having your words twisted up, then leadership is not for you. Leadership is reserved for the ‪#‎BRAVE‬.

Tiffany Winfree

You dare travel on sacred road, although you may not know the end.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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