If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.

Success is working with enthusiasm and ambition, living with joy and kindness, and going toward a life of ultimate service and happiness.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun'. We might not land on the sun but at least we would get off the ground.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

The vague torment of ... ambition.

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels ...

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Who never climbed high never fell low.

What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.