Quotes about Ambition

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

― Maya Angelou

“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.” 

― Donald J. Trump

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.” 

― Roman Payne

"What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."

              -ELEANOR POWELL

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” 

― Salvador Dalí 

"Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

 -MAE JEMISON

“[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.” 

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

Helen Keller

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."

Bob Marley

"When ambition ends, happiness begins."

Thomas Merton

"In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions."

                   -CATHERINE COOK

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