“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

Let work itself be the ambition.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community. Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.