Quotes About Ambition
Ambition is really fleeting, it can come and go and some people have more of it and some have less.
But I believe that no matter how much or how little you have, you can get more. And I think it starts with who you hang out with.
No for some of us, it can be very hard to go meet people super ambitious and then go convince them to hang out with us all the time!
But all of us have access to this blog! And here is where I wanted to offer you a resource on quotes about ambition, so we can get dozens of perspectives on what ambition is and how to have more of it!
Below are 87 different quotes for ambition that show us how to turn up the motivation and ambition levels in our life to the max!
Enjoy my friend.
87 Quotes About Ambition
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali
“It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything them.” – Martina Boone
“Ambition is a dream with a v8 engine.” – Elvis Presley
“Ambition beats genius 99 percent of the time.” – Jay Leno
“Big results require big ambitions.” – Heraclitus
“Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.” – Dwayne Johnson
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.” – Oscar Wilde
“Always go with the choice that scares you the most because that’s the one that is going to help you grow.” – Caroline Myss
“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Ambition is not a vice of little people.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.”- Frank Tyger
“I got a great ambition. To die of exhaustion rather than boredom.” – Thomas Carlyle
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sate back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.” – Edmund Burke
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
“My ambition cannot be stopped.” – Cao Cao
“Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I will never turn down my ambition because someone else is uncomfortable with the volume.”
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
“One way to keep momentum going is to constantly have goals.” – Michael Korda
“Your positive action combined with positive thinking results in success.”- Shiv Khera
“You can be as great as you want. Set realistic goals and give 110 percent to accomplish those goals. Never give up.” – Susan Polgar
“Talented people hit targets no one else can hit. Ambitious people aim to hit targets no one else can see.”- Addoo S. Mukhtar
“Ambition is the first step to success. The second step is action.”
“Work hard for a cause, not for applause.”
“Ambition is like the sea wave, which the more you drink, the more you thirst.” – Alfred Tennyson
“I’m ambitious and I’m determined and I know where I’m going to be. It’s not where I want to be, but where I’m going to be.” – Ricky Whittle
“Better to live one year as a tiger than a hundred as a sheep.” – Madonna
“Never give up because great things take time.”
“I’m coming for something they said I couldn’t have.”
“What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.” – Theodore Roethke
“Ambition, never is in a greater that than I, it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Never give up because great things take time.”
“Ambition is in my blood and in my air and no one is gonna stop me from becoming famous.” – Jhon Platero
“Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.” – Henry S. Haskins
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz
“Individual ambition serves the common good.” – Adam Smith
“Stay positive. Stay fighting. Stay brave. Stay ambitious. Stay focused. Stay strong. Mentality is everything.”
“Woman who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Timothy Leary
“You did not wake up today to be mediocre.”
“She’s a dreamer. A doer. A thinker. She sees possibility everywhere.”
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
“Failure separates the hard workers from the dreamers.”
“2016: The caterpillar. 2017: The cocoon. 2018: The Butterfly.”
“Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.” – Stewart Butterfield
“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.” – William Congreve
“Motivation is not a matter of will-power. It is a matter of want-power.” – Paul Karasik
“Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.” – Wilfred Owen
“Ambition is the first step to success, the second step is action.”
“Ambition is believing in yourself even when no one else in the world doesn’t.” – Wale
“Far from what I once was but not yet what I’m going to be.”
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” – William Shakespeare
“Put work into your dreams.” – Lesley D. Nurse
“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
“Be brave for what you believe in and make your dreams a reality.”
“Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success’.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our ambitions should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us, and tre progress is to know more, be more and to do more.” – Oscar Wilde
“The higher you aim for dreams, the larger you appear to those who cannot reach the sky.”
“I am attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?” – Tom Brady
“Don’t compromise.” – Steve Jobs
“Ambition is my drug, success is the only cure.”
“My strength comes from knowing I have the ability to do anything, my weakness comes from the desire to do it all at once.”
“A man without ambition is like a bird flying without directions.”
“Limits, like fears are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
“A dream without ambition is like a car without gas. You’ve not going anywhere.” – Sean Hampton
“A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.” – Pearly Bailey
“It is a grand thing to rise in the world, the ambition to do so, is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.” – Anthony Trollope
“Big results require big ambitions.” – James Champy
“Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.” – Baruch Spinoza
“Get obsessed, totally obsessed. There is no use just like what you do. Get obsessed with it.” – Mario Testino
“Ambition is a so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Just be yourself, hold true to yourself and your dreams and ambitions.” – Patrick Rahn
“Ambition is more than mere desire. It is desire plus incentive. Determination – the will to achieve the desire.” – Herbert Armstrong
“Be ambitious. Get shit done. Keep your priorities straight, your mind right and head up.”
“Dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Tis immortality to die aspiring.” – George Chapman
“In life, when ambition is the prologue, victory becomes the epitaph.”
“Criticism is the price of ambition.” – Robin S. Sharma
“What ever you’re thinking, think better.”
“If you have no ambition, your talent is worthless.”
“Surround yourself with people who have dreams, desire and ambition. They’ll help you push for and realize your own.”
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, I’m self esteemed, I know exactly what I want. I always stand for myself and for the right things as well. I have a empowered pen and voice. If that makes me arrogant, it’s okay.” – Ishadora Tripath
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Ambition is the germ which all growth of nobleness proceeds.” – Oscar Wilde
Quotes About Ambition
There we are my friend. A list of quotes about ambition.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I would love to hear your advice on the topic. How do you become more ambitious when you are down and out.
What short and long term goals make you the most ambitious and excited for your life?
Let’s chat in the comment section below!
Thank you for stopping by.
With gratitude,
Chris Cucchiara
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