Orson Scott Card Quotes

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Son, seek out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for you.

I want to be bigger than everybody.

Success is man's god.

The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more important, and nothing that works faster than for you to cast off your own limitations than for you to begin dreaming and fantasizing about the wonderful things that you can become, have, and do.

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

Reach for greatness, nothing less. And make sure you have some fun along the way.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I am going to continue to get better and do great things.

It doesn't matter who you are in this league: You're always trying to have a bigger role. Anybody who said they weren't trying to do that would be lying.

Hopefully I will continue to thrive.

I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

Dreams do come true, but not without the help of others, a good education, a strong work ethic, and the courage to lean in.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great.

Most of my dreams came true.

I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement

Your ability will grow to match your dreams.