Quotes on Ambition

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.Michelangelo Buonarroti

• dreams
• goals
• ambition

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.Jane Wagner

• goals
• ambition

Every man has a secret ambition: to outsmart horses, fish, and women.Mark Twain

• ambition
• women
• fishing

Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.John Stevenson

• discipline
• work
• ambition
• job
• ability

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.William Faulkner

• dreams
• goals
• self improvement
• ambition

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.Robert Fritz

• desire
• goals
• ambition
• possibility

Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people.Dave Liniger

• dreams
• ambition

The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illuminated by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt. They haven't time.Melvin Evans

• ambition
• doubt

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.Thomas Huxley

• ambition
• progress