Ambition Quote by Julia Ward Howe

Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

— Anonymous

We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to…

— Walter Bonatti

If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!

— Blake Roney

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.

— Warren G. Harding

Science has now confirmed what philosophers, mystics, and other intuitive people have long declared: every human being has been literally "engineered for success" by…

— Maxwell Maltz

I can see the time coming when I won't need to be out there in the upper pyramid of climbing, but the things you…

— Jeff Lowe

I've been climbing for almost twenty years now. I'm more inspired and more motivated. I feel stronger than I ever have. I feel like…

— Chris Sharma

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

— Jules Michelet

If humans are not ambitious, then what would be the essenceof life

— Mak_786

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

— Octavia Butler

“Continually question climbing pursuits. Do they draw one back to the climbing community? Or do they lead along the [inner-directed] path? This questioning generates…

— Jon Krakauer