1,853 Quotes About Ambition

The work you put in when no one is watching will matter far more than the work you do when the cameras are rolling.

It's wonderful to be ambitious after all of that success.

We cannot have, but can lose, everything.

You don't need wings on your back to fly, you just need wings on your mind, and all of us are born with those wings, but they are rarely nourished to their fullest expanse so that we can spread them wide and take off.

Initially, inspiration can come from anywhere but to sustain inspiration one must take actions immediately before it fades away.

Give God a break: work for what you are praying for.

It is better to be a Number Two in a working system, than be a Number One yet lack capacity to make the system work.

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never happens.One becomes afraid of love, because love opens the inner emptiness.Love is not an effort. If love is an effort, it is not love.It is the same case with the ultimate experience, it happens when you do not make an effort. Then you can simply float with the river to the Ocean.

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.