Ambitions Quotes

“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire I needed to be more and to do more.”
― Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“The aching in my chest
isn't because I miss you,
it's realizing that you have
become someone I no longer know,
your fears, your 4 am thoughts,
your achievements,
are things I no longer have an equivalent to.
Who we were and who we are
are four different people,
and the me from now
doesn't relate to the me from then,
let alone to the you from now.
-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz”
― Tanzy Sayadi, liQUID PROse QUOtes

“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”
― Jeffrey Archer, A Prisoner of Birth

“How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desires, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want to hear, only what will be satisfactory, what will gratify, what will give comfort, what will for the moment alleviate your suffering? If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires. And is there any other form of listening? Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby? Listening has importance only when on is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens. Can one put aside all these screens through which we listen, and really listen?”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

“A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.”
― Stormie Omartian, Stormie: A Story of Forgiveness and Healing

“Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.”
― Roy Bennett

“If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed.”
― Tadahiko Nagao, Kokology: The Game of Self-Discovery

“Sometimes our highest goal becomes our big enemy when we move towards our goal blindly without focusing on the path we follow.”
― Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

“If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent means to take it failed simply because they weren't destined for the honor”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“An ambitious man needs to know when to take risks.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“It is a matter of artistic instinct. In his own thoughts and feelings and way of doing things an actor is worth nothing or he is worth something. If he is worth something then he will try to be worth something more as is only normal in anyone who wants to get on. I can think of no other way to explain artistic development.”
― Maurice Chevalier

“The factor that contributed most to the demise of the Republic was not, in fact, the war, but rampant self-interest. Endemic to the political process our ancestors engineered, the insidious pursuit of self-enrichment grew only more pervasive through the long centuries, and in the end left the body politic feckless and corrupt. Consider the self-interest of the Core Worlds, unwavering in their exploitation of the Outer Systems for resources; the Outer Systems themselves, undermined by their permissive disregard of smuggling and slavery; those ambitious members of the Senate who sought only status and opportunity.”
― James Luceno, Tarkin

“Set your ambitions with your heart and achieve your goals using your mind”
― Reuben. B.K

“When she was in high school she had believed that white people wanted their children to be president of the United States; that most of them worked hard with that goal in mind. And if not president--well, perhaps a cabinet member.”
― Ann Petry, The Street

“If Ambition be a Fault, ’tis only in those who have not a sufficient stock of Merit to support it ...”
― Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess

“He was going places, but those were places that she didn’t want to go.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“The question of guilt rankles. She knows what she’s done is wrong. Unethical, deceitful – however
labelled, it is wrong. Yet the pesky little voice that has wormed its way inside her head continues to insist that her actions were sensible.”
― Lisa Medved, The Engraver's Secret

“Most people don't die because of their desires or ambitions, but because they cannot fulfill them completely or in the right time. Life is the daughter of prudence, consistency, and patience; it is calm and knows how to wait. Death, on the other hand, is fast, unruly, restless, obsessive—it yearns for everything but achieves nothing.”
― Geverson Ampolini

“Nothing is wrong with dreaming on and on and on. However, you should know when to wake up and begin to work on what you have dreamed so far.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“If you want to achieve your big dreams, check the company you keep. Negative influences can derail your ambitions. It can make you feel like a weakling and stop you from dreaming big.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams

“«The fastest road to wisdom is winding through the swampy marsh of sufferings, sacrifice, losses and disillusionment. The thing about “in much wisdom is much grief” is not just a turn of phrase but the merciless ascertaining»”
― Raphael Canossa, Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny

“No dirty work is too dirty for the one who loves living in dirt, and enjoys wallowing in it like a turtle in the ocean”
― Raphael Canossa, Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny

“In the chronicles of ambition and the legends of resolve, one name echoes like thunder across the ages—Gary Tolan. Not born of ordinary mold, but forged in the fires of vision, discipline, and unmatched will, he does not follow greatness… he is its very definition.”
― Gary Tolan aka King Tolan