1,853 Quotes About Ambition

To give up is to stumble; giving in is noble.

When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, 'Because I'm going to change the world some day. And I'm giving you the chance to say, We knew her when.

If you have great ambitions in proportion to your talents, this is ok, your talents will feed your ambitions! But if your ambitions are far beyond your talents, then you will always suffer and you will permanently anchor in the harbour of unhappiness!

For the ambitious among us, once we reach our goal we soon formulate another to pursue. This is the hedonic treadmill. We continuously raise the bar for what we want or feel we need in order to be happy - and the hedonic treadmill spins faster with ambition. In other words, the downside to being ambitious is a constant sense of dissatisfaction with our achievements.

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

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions(...)if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life.#Page no.134

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!

Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.