It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.

Somewhere between what is…and what can be…begs the question…what are you meant to be?

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

Step into the future with focus knowing that the only way to kill your dream is trying to find another.

Your problem is in thinking the sky’s the limit. Why set limits?

The map? I will first make it.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.

It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but...

I’ve wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn’t change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I...

Without drive you will never get anywhere in life.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

I can’t sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the “slowing up” of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, “Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday.

Do not be afraid to pursue your God-given goals.

Relax and be free. You don’t have to prove anything.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make...

Talent without money, coach, vision and mission is a piteous adventure.

I used to think I had ambition… but now I’m not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They’re easily confused.

We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself; if they don’t sound slightly impossible then they aren’t set high enough.

Look beyond what you can see, Think Potential

I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and...

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn’t enough for me. Can you understand that?

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith–contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition–the desire to succeed–to have power–leads to most ills...

Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid...

The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.

…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong...

The door is crackedWe used to meetlike water does landnonot thatmore like when skin touches skinkissing fingertipsor when air escapes a lung and is felt across the worldI’ve leapt over cracks in sidewalksand swallowed away...

That’s what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.

Oh, it’s delightful to have ambitions. I’m so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them– that’s the best of it. Just as soon as you attain...

We are capable beyond measure. Go all out and be the great person, you are destiny to be.

Ambition is the death of joy.

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, ‘Because I’m going to change the world some day. And...

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we...

A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth...

What’s important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Ich werde nicht alles erreichen, was ich will, aber ich werde alles probieren, was ich kann.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate;Ambition is a means to thrive.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

I haven’t got ambitions. Actually, I’m determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way....