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Goals and Ambition QuotesFamous Goals and Ambition quotes by popular authors such as Edmund Burke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Plutarch and others.
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[highlight-text]Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Ambition destroys its possessor.
Talmud
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[highlight-text]Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]Not failure but low aim is a crime.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]You have to set new goals every day.
Julie Krone
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[highlight-text]Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
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[highlight-text]Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.
Arthur Adamov
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[highlight-text]If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
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[highlight-text]The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.
Ayn Rand
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[highlight-text]Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]That's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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[highlight-text]It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
David Riesman
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[highlight-text]We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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[highlight-text]The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Starr Jordan
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[highlight-text]Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.
Saint Francis de Sales
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[highlight-text]Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
Thomas Eakins
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[highlight-text]Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.
Thomas Hardy
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[highlight-text]Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
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[highlight-text]The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.
Luigi Pirandello
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[highlight-text]Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham
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[highlight-text]Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!
William Winter
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[highlight-text]Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!
Bible
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[highlight-text]Know what you want to do hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin
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[highlight-text]The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
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[highlight-text]I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass children with bright eyes not being pushed around useful work that suits one's abilities plain tasty food and occasional satisfying nookie.
Paul Goodman