Ambition Quotes

"I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring."

- David Bowie

"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It’s better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than halfway up one you don’t."

- Ricky Gervais

"Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world."

- Archimedes

"I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It’s just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change."

- Reese Witherspoon

"The world promises you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness."

- Pope Benedict XVI

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck."

- Stefano Gabbana

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it."

- Bill Murray

"Build your business success around something that you love — something that is inherently and endlessly interesting to you."

- Martha Stewart

"Having realised that in cooking there was a vast field of study and development, I said to myself, 'Although I had not originally intended to enter this profession, since I am in it, I will work in such a fashion that I will rise above the ordinary, and I will do my best to raise again the prestige of the chef de cuisine.'"

- Auguste Escoffier

"Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor."

- Ian Somerhalder

"I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure."

- Anthony Bourdain

"I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence."

- Beyonce

"I prefer to be sitting on the beach, but I can’t. I want to be a billionaire."

- James Packer

"I don’t care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy."

- Ty Murray

"I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify—and never miss an angle."

- Walt Disney

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"If I should capture the most beautiful sunrise, only then, will I stop capturing them."

- Danikelii

"Of the great harvest I myself desired."

- Robert Frost

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."

- Leonard Bernstein

"I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery."

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

"I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever."

- Jesse Owens

"The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"You got to try and reach for the stars or Enter the 'Gamma Flow State' - Brainwave Enhancement to achieve the unreachable."

- Cathy Freeman

"You go big or you go home."

- Leslie Knope

"Winning is every girl's dream."

- Leslie Knope

"Ride your dreams like you’re riding a wild horse."

"Turn your dreams into plans."

"I'm creating the life of my dreams."