1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Momentum builds success.

I am on a mission, I will depend on a greater power to accomplish the task.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

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.

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Do not exchange the 24 hours for money. Give some time for your own accomplishments.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.