One big weakness in too many of us is that we do not have our hearts set on some worthy objective.  We have no hope to be deferred.  Tragic is this condition for any life.  Everyone should have his or her heart set on a few really worthy goals.  …  When worthy desires are realized, life takes on new and richer meaning.  The efforts which one puts forth in order to realize his dreams are [...]

Ambition is the mainspring to many noble deeds and to high achievement.  Show me a man from whose eyes has gone the light of ambition and from whose breast the desire to excel has departed, and I will show you a man who is content with the commonplace and whose life is to be measured in terms of the vanishing point. We all need more ambition, and we need to arouse it’s spark, if possible, in [...]

It is a crime to discourage any honorable ambition germinated in another’s heart, and perhaps a greater offense to allow it to be destroyed. –Douglas Meador, Amarillo Daily News, Amarillo, TX, Feb. 28, 1943

Ambition is that quality which causes a man to reach onward and upward for something bigger and better.  Some have said it is simply the disposition to restlessness but such a definition does not fit.  Many men are restless and have no ambition at all.  Ambition is more than merely restlessness.  It is a force which, while it may cause restlessness, leads on to definite and concentrated effort [...]