ambition

Find the will power and begin to chase your dreams.

Awake. Reach out. Press onward.

Be driven by your dreams.

What you're saying," I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

I set goals_I take chances_I dare to achieve_I win_I lose_I don__ quit_It__ my life and I__ not afraid to LIVE it!I would rather experience the ups and downs of a life I have chosen, than to suffer the regret of a life I have settled for.

I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route destruction!

I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of those legends in Russia, confirmed by Passek, Sleptsov and others, that one only has to come to the Caucasus to be showered with decorations. Everyone expects it of us, demands it of us. But I've been here two years, taken part in two expeditions and received nothing. For all that, I've so much pride that I won't leave this place until I'm a major, with an Anna or a Vladimir round my neck. I've reached the point where it really rankles when some Gnilokishkin is decorated and I'm not. What's more, how could I look my elder in the face again, or merchant Kotel'nikov to whom I sell grain, or my aunt in Moscow and all those fine gentlemen in Russia, if I return after two years in the Caucasus with nothing to show for it? No, I don't want to know those gentlemen and I'm sure that they couldn't care less about me. But such is man's nature that though I couldn't give a damn about them they're the reason why I'm ruining the best years of my life, my happiness and whole future.

The greatest musicians never cared to be rock stars. They just wanted to play. The greatest actors never cared to be movie stars they just loved their craft. The greatest artists painted on canvas to fill their own hearts. It__ how we truly feel about things in life that will determine our success.

A truly successful person is not one who achieves his highest ambitions, but one who enjoys helping others reach theirs.

If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you _ envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.

Don__ aim at success__he more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.