“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
Others on Ambition
Michelangelo
3 quotes“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low...”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
3 quotes“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
Steve Jobs
3 quotes“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.”
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
2 quotes“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”
James Barrie
2 quotes“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
Lily Tomlin
2 quotes“I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.”
Louis L'Amour
2 quotes“He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.”
Louisa May Alcott
2 quotes“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall w...”
C.S. Lewis
2 quotes“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 quotes“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1 quote“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
Rodney Dangerfield
1 quote“At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the...”