80 quotes
“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.”
"Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am."
— Thomas Merton
"The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness"
— Pope Benedict XVI
"Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting."
— Cormac McCarthy
"Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither."
— C.S. Lewis
"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."
— Brian Tracy
"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
— Anatole France
"Only the impossible is worth doing."
— Akon
"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom."
— Thomas Carlyle
"The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you."
— Taylor Swift
"So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough."
— Sylvia Plath
"Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection."
— Swami Vivekananda
"Aim higher in case you fall short."
— Suzanne Collins
"stay hungry stay foolish"
— Steve Jobs
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
"You'll never really be great unless you aim high."
— Stella Adler
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
— Robert Browning
"If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest."
— Publilius Syrus