Ambition Quotes - Page 12

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books, and you get a bookshelf-warping total of twenty-eight million books available for an English reader in the next fifty years! But you can read only 2,600 - because you are a wildly ambitious book devourer. ... For every one book that you choose to read, you must ignore ten thousand other books simply because you don't have the time (or money!).
Tony Reinke
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
Félix J. Palma
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.
Annie Fellows Johnston
Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
Félix J. Palma
The world looks very different to me now at twenty. I have outgrown my early opinions and ideals with my short dresses, just as Mrs. Walton said we would. Now the critics can say 'Thou waitest till thy woman's fingers wrought the best that lay within thy woman's heart.
Annie Fellows Johnston
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.
Sherwood Anderson
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.
John Burroughs
Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable
Germany Kent
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
Margaret Atwood
Erosion of corruption is ambition of a nation. Sow the revolution or go for contribution; if not, opt corroboration.
Vikrmn
What God want me to be, I shall be by His grace.
Lailah Gifty Akita
With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.
Mohammed Ali Bapir
One great concern that plagues very ambitious people is this: in the end, they’ll get all the precious things they ever dreamed of and every precious accomplishment most expected and conceived they’d achieve . . . but on that path of ambition, they’d lose precious moments with the most precious people they’ve come across. However, they forge ahead on that path hoping, somehow, they might make up for it, sometime, in future.
Ufuoma Apoki
Whatever you dream of is a possibility.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Aim for the stars. You will sooner reach the moon.
Lailah Gifty Akita
He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.
H.W. Brands
Find the will power and begin to chase your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The achievement of dreams demands 100 percent dedication.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes, we must travel on the longest path to our sacred-destination.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Awake. Reach out. Press onward.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Be driven by your dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.
S. Hunter Nisbet
Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.
Chuck Palahniuk
I set goals…I take chances…I dare to achieve…I win…I lose…I don’t quit…It’s my life and I’m not afraid to LIVE it!I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.
Steve Maraboli
Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
Shannon L. Alder
Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route destruction!
Olawale Daniel
The greatest musicians never cared to be rock stars. They just wanted to play. The greatest actors never cared to be movie stars they just loved their craft. The greatest artists painted on canvas to fill their own hearts. It’s how we truly feel about things in life that will determine our success.
Ron Baratono
I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those legends in Russia, confirmed by Passek, Sleptsov and others, that one only has to come to the Caucasus to be showered with decorations. Everyone expects it of us, demands it of us. But I've been here two years, taken part in two expeditions and received nothing. For all that, I've so much pride that I won't leave this place until I'm a major, with an Anna or a Vladimir round my neck. I've reached the point where it really rankles when some Gnilokishkin is decorated and I'm not. What's more, how could I look my elder in the face again, or merchant Kotel'nikov to whom I sell grain, or my aunt in Moscow and all those fine gentlemen in Russia, if I return after two years in the Caucasus with nothing to show for it? No, I don't want to know those gentlemen and I'm sure that they couldn't care less about me. But such is man's nature that though I couldn't give a damn about them they're the reason why I'm ruining the best years of my life, my happiness and whole future.
Leo Tolstoy
A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.
Charbel Tadros
If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you — envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.
Suzy Kassem
Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.
Viktor E. Frankl
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Criss Jami
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant McGill
Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.
Suzy Kassem
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant McGill
Every flower blooms at a different pace.
Suzy Kassem
You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.
Suzy Kassem
Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.
Shannon A. Thompson
The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.
Habeeb Akande
The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.
F.K. Preston
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
Alan Lightman
Let your ambitions fly, let nothing hold you back.
Nabil N. Jamal
The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.
Todd William
Whatever you dream of, there will be fulfillment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
Paulo Coelho
Momentum builds success.
Suzy Kassem
Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Roy Bennett
It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.
Martina Boone
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald J. Trump
I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg
Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.
Suzy Kassem
If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
Criss Jami
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
Criss Jami
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies.
John Fowles
Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.
Debasish Mridha
Action achieves ambition.
Amit Kalantri
Anyone can choose to have success, but only the patient ones will get rewarded by it. Be relentless in chasing your dreams.
Aaron Lauritsen

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