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

William Shakespeare

"In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When your ambition is greater than your fear, your life will get bigger than your dream."

Farshad Asl

"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

Les Brown

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

e. e. cummings

"Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams."

Dwayne Johnson

"You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world and you will be something. “I cannot,” never accomplished anything; "I will try,” has wrought wonders."

J. Hawes

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

Elvis Presley

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

Salvador Dali

"We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests."

Sheryl Sandberg

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

Henry van Dyke