Ambitions Quotes

“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

“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

“I longed with all my soul to be good, but I was young; I had passions and I as alone, completely alone, in my search for goodness. Every time I tried to display my innermost desires - a wish to be morally good - I met with contempt and scorn, and as soon as I gave in to the base desires I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, lust for power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, revenge, were all respected qualities. As I yielded to these passions I became like my elders and I felt that they were pleased with me.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession and Other Religious Writings

“When following your heart be careful not to lose your mind”
― Aegelis, Sophizo

“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

“Life does not take vacations.
Neither should your ambitions.
In this life right here, right now...
fulfilling your dreams should be your only vow.”
― Ricardo Derose

“Basic gardening knowledge tells us that plants located adjacent to each other in the same soil, with similar exposure to sunlight and equal access to water and nourishment may grow at different rates and in different ways. My siblings and I were very different—in personality and temperament, in our views and opinions, and in our dreams and ambitions for the future. How could I be expected to evolve at the same pace and in the same direction as a stranger with whom I had tried (and failed) to build a mutually enabling relationship?”
― Ranjani Rao, Rewriting My Happily Ever After - A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

“It’s because I have certain standards for the connotations that my name rings and the legacy that I leave behind,” I responded. “When people hear my name, I want them to recognize it for the reasons that I want. I want to be recognized for my intellect, my intellectual discoveries, my writing, my contributions to equality, and other such things. I don’t just want to be recognized for being a converter; I want to be recognized for being who I truly am.”

“You want to be famous?”


“I would have to be in order for my legacy to be known… but I want to be famous for intellectual change, philosophical contributions, my writing, and my support of equality. I don’t just want to be famous for converting! My life could amount to more than just conversion!”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“What drives us forward, can just as well pull us down: our ambitions, prejudice, overwhelming pride, the inability to believe - in God, in friends, in the mankind in general.”
― Raphael Canossa, Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny

“When following your heart be careful not to lose your mind.”
― Aegelis

“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