33 Quotes About Ambition and Dreams

Having an understanding of your dreams helps to define some of your best expectations of your self. These quotes about ambition and dreams offer the type of encouragement and inspiration you need to take a step forward.

“A life without dreams is like a garden without flowers.”

“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions”

“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”

“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose”

“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”

“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”

“Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.”

“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”

“Ambition never comes to an end.”

“An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action.”

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”

“If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.”

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”

“Life can only be understood backwards, but can only be lived forwards.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”

“The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.”

“The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.”

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”

“Unless you start doing something different, you are in for more of the same.”

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do. And probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“We shall not cease from exploring, and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

“Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.”

“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart… Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”

Ambition is a central key ingredient to completing your long term goals in life.