ambition Quotes

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

I was young; I was newly married. My Cambridge degree was still warm in my pocket - a roll of parchment guaranteeing me, I thought, a sort of free ambassadorial passage to any campus of my choosing, and I had chosen Sydney - the world was all before me.

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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, and achieving our mark.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.