Quotes about Ambition

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.

Poverty may be a privilege and even a way of life for the monk in the desert, for he has only himself to sustain and none but his god to please, but I consider poverty to be the mark of a lack of ability or a lack of ambition. I am not deficient in either of these qualities!

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

Do things you've always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)