Ambitious Endeavors Quotes

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself, and let history record that as we toiled laboriously and courageously, we worked to live gloriously.

No great goal was ever easily achieved.

I believe that if you want to go make your mark on the world you've got to go out and do it. Don't be shy, be adventurous.

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

In the great undertakings, there is glory, even in failure.

We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

Ambition sufficiently plagues her proselytes, by keeping themselves always in show, like the statue of a public place.

Going to the moon was a fable. Resetting aging is a fable, but that's what we're setting out to do.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don't have a clear payoff. This mentality is hugely damaging to our success as a civilization. Our desire to understand the universe is kindled by curiosity and wonder, and this has fuelled countless scientific breakthroughs.

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

I think sometimes we in the industry have to do ambitious projects.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.