Quotes on Ambition

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”

“Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.”

“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

“The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be. ”

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”

“People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'[ (2009)]”

“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”

“Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.”

“The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition”

“True friends don't come with conditions.”

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Your ambitions are not your own; they are imposed on you.

There are so many worlds, and I have not yet conquered even one.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

I don't want to die without leaving a mark on the world.

You have to be brave enough to go after what you want.

Some people are born with a sense of destiny; they feel there is something big awaiting them.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst.

Dreams don’t have deadlines. I’m thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

World domination is just my side gig.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world?

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

Let your motto then always be ‘Excelsior,’ for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don’t do anything that someone else can do. Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

If you don’t know what you want, you’re never going to get it.