"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd."
-Anon.

Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
-Pearl Bailey, "Talking to Myself" (1971)

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
-William Blake

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
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-Les Brown

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
-Robert Burton

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
-Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record, 1912

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
-Salvador Dali

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.
-Joseph Morrell Dodge

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
-William Faulkner "You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
-Henry Ford

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
-Anatole France

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
-David Lloyd George

"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes

"We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room."
-Robert Francis Kennedy

"Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'"
-Robert Francis Kennedy

"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
-Michael Korda

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
-Niccolo Machiavelli

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.
-Peter McWilliams

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
-Cesare Pavese

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
-George Sand

"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."
-Robert L. Schwartz