ambition quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Neither promise yourself things nor do things if you see that when deprived of them they will cause you material suffering."
100
"To the ambitious, whom neither the boon of life, nor the beauty of the world suffice to content, it comes as penance that life with them is squandered, and that they possess neither the benefits nor the beauty of the world."
101
"He who possesses most is most afraid to lose."
102
"The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues."
232
"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."
505
"Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do."
774
"Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose."
775
"There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition."
776
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."
777
"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."
778
"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
779
"Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy."
780
"A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions."
781
"The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition."
782
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
783
"You’ve been given another day of life. How will you use it? Will you wait until tomorrow as you’ve done for years or decide today is the day you commit to excellence?"
794
"Your future is the result of your daily actions. You’re defined by what you do today. Lazy now, loser later. Get to work."
795
"The temporary satisfaction of quitting is outweighed by the eternal suffering of being nobody."
796
"Your mind must be stronger than your feelings."
797
"There is no light without dark. There is no joy without pain."
798
"If failure makes you stronger, you can never lose."
799
"A man without a vision for his future always returns to his past."
800
"Cost is the enemy of the poor man, so the poor try to save money. Time is the enemy of the rich man, so the rich try to save time."
801
"Lazy people do a little work and feel like they should be winning. Winners work as hard as possible and still worry if they’re being lazy."
802
"The harder you work, the more important you become."
803
"Your mindset is the single most important factor in determining your success or failure."
804
"Reality is self-constructed. In my world, I am in absolute control every second."
805
"Resist the slave mind."
806
"If you want the happy tomorrows, you need the truths that hurt today."
807
"Stress is the only condition under which your body and mind will ever perform miracles."
808
"Most people see other people with things they want and don’t do the second half. They don’t try to work out how they got that thing."
809
"Have you taken advantage of the few things you actually control? Or are you still hoping to just get lucky?"
810
"Poor people like to believe the rich are mysteriously unhappy to feel better about being poor."
811
"Do the impossible and you’ll never doubt yourself ever again."
812
"You are exactly where you deserve to be. Change who you are and you will change how you live."
813
"Intellect is nothing without energy. Ideas are nothing without energy. High-energy people win."
814
"Reject weakness in any form."
815
"Don’t listen to the advice of people who are living lives you don’t want to live."
816
"Your only option to level up is to begin talking to winners."
817
"Your mindset is like a muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes."
818
"Suffer because you’re weak or suffer to become strong, but there’s no avoiding the suffering."
819
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. You’ve gotta do something and you’ve gotta do something fast. You just sitting around talking about it and hoping for things to get better isn’t going to do anything."
820
"You’ve never pushed yourself because you believe the goal can never be achieved."
821
"You need to understand that in this world there’s a whole bunch of people doing amazing things that you are not doing. And that needs to piss you off."
822
"You have unlimited work to do today. Every second you waste is an admittance that you don’t actually want it badly enough."
823
"Think of all of the amazing things you could have accomplished by now if you weren’t brutally lazy. Imagine all of the time you wasted, every opportunity you let pass by, all the good advice you arrogantly ignored."
824
"You must put in the effort to get the life you want."
825
"Emotional control isn’t a lack of emotion; it’s a necessary function of maturity."
826
"You are never going to have any of the things you want if you do not get them yourself. Nobody cares about you enough to do it for you."
827
"They want to get rich, but they have no plan to get rich! And a hope and a plan are two different things."
838
"The amount of stress you can tolerate while remaining effective is directly correlated to the level of success you will enjoy."
839
"Money is always moving. If you get in the right place at the right time, then you’re going to get some!"
840
"Success is always stressful."
841
"If you’re not willing to work hard, then you don’t deserve to be successful."
842
"Surround yourself with winners. Success breeds success."
843
"The only person responsible for your success or failure is you."
844
"People don’t get jealous of losers."
845
"The Matrix is strong. The systems which are designed to keep you a slave is strong."
846
"Make your last name mean something. Only a coward doesn’t care about their bloodline."
850
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
1071
"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."
745
"It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge."
964