Ambition

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

James Cameron

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

Azim Premji

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.

Mark Twain

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Donald Trump

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Cormac McCarthy

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Epicurus

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

No author

People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too.

Paulo Coelho

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Alice Walker

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Maya Angelou

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Publilius Syrus

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe