1,853 Quotes About Ambition

Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.

People always tell me, Do your best. But I'd rather goof off.

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Embrace the beauty of good moment.

It is better to die than carry the burden of expectations, you die every moment then, bearing situations you are not supposed to put up with.

Do the work in your unique style.

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere — anywhere.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.