Ambition & Goals

Category Ambition

Here are some quotes related to ambition along with their authors:

“When your ambition is greater than your fear, your life will get bigger than your dream.” – Farshad Asl¹

“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.” – Steven Erikson¹

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.” – Thomas Otway¹

“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 Emerson¹

“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley¹

“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 Trollope¹

“Ambition is the epicenter of perseverance through which accomplishments spell success.” – Byron Pulsifer¹

“A dream without ambition is like a car without gas—you’re not going anywhere.” – Sean Hampton¹

“You can realize your full possibilities, but to dominate and achieve you must have high aims, ideals and ambitions—all linked to an iron will.” – W.D. Wattles¹

“Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant H. McGill¹

“My ambition comes from my passion: finding what I love and then expanding on that.” – Miranda Kerr¹

“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius¹

“Ambition is more than mere desire. It is desire plus incentive—determination—will to achieve the desire.” – Herbert Armstrong¹

“People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them.” – Diane Setterfield¹

“The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.” – John D. Rockefeller²

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Ain’t nowhere else in the world where you can go from driving a truck to Cadillac overnight.” – Elvis Presley¹

“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 only vanity ennobled.” – Jerome K. Jerome

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“Big results require big ambitions.” – Heraclitus

“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” – Washington Irving

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.” – Jim Henson

“Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.” – Josh Billings

“Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!” – Edward Young

“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.” – Oscar Wilde

“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.” – William Lilly

“Ambition is no cure for love!” – Walter Scott

“Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Ambition is the mind’s immodesty.” – William Davenant

“Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.” – Baruch Spinoza

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

“We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.” – Rajneesh

“Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.” – Walter Savage Landor

Category Goals

Here are some quotes related to goals along with their authors:

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – Les Brown

“If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

“Goals are like a map. They help us determine where we want to end up, and give us personal direction on which to focus our energy.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.” – Dalai Lama

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Sheralyn Silverstein

“Everything is impossible until it is done.” – Robert H. Goddard

“Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.” – Roy T. Bennett

“You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.” – Charles C. Noble

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford

“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” – Fitzhugh Dodson

“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.” – Richard Branson

“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.” – Jim Rohn

“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” – Jessica Savitch

“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.” – Walt Disney

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale

“Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others.” – Unknown

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins

“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” – Unknown