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There is only so much one can learn online. University is the last refuge of those who mistrust Wikipedia.
-Anon.
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"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."
-Anon.
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Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
-Pearl Bailey, "Talking to Myself" (1971)
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"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
-William Blake
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
-Les Brown
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
-Robert Burton
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Nothing we achieve in this world is achieved alone. It is always achieved with others teaching us along the way.
-Lee J. Colan, INSPIRE!
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
-Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record, 1912
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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 Dali
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What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.
-Joseph Morrell Dodge
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
-William Faulkner
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It gets to be part of your everyday routine. I expect to be there on Sunday. I expect to be there at practice. I think back to when I first started school in the first grade and how long it seemed to take to go from first through 12th.
You figure in ninth grade you're never going to get out of high school, and you couldn't wait. Here I am in my 14th year and going on 13 for not missing basically a day of school…
Part of it is being able to escape injury, overcome some injuries but also be able to play at a high enough level for so long to still be here doing it. The streak itself doesn't stand out to me that it's something I have to continue.
As long as I'm a Green Bay Packer, I expect to play. I expect to help this team win and be a tremendous leader. And I expect that to continue until the day I don't play here anymore.
commenting on his consecutive-game streak (211 at the time of this article)
-Brett Favre, article by John McClain, "Houston Chronicle", September 26, 2004
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"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
-Henry Ford
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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
-Anatole France
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"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
-David Lloyd George
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"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes
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"We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room."
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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"Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'"
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
-Michael Korda
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
-Peter McWilliams
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
-William Osler
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
-Cesare Pavese
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
-George Sand
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"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."
-Robert L. Schwartz
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2
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"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."
-Harold Taylor
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden (chapter 18)
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, from “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"
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"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-Mark Twain
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From compromise and things half done,
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last the fight is won,
God, keep me still unsatisfied.
-Louis Untermeyer, Prayer (last verse)
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"If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it."
-William Arthur Ward
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No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.
-Tiger Woods
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Books about Ambition
