Quotes about Ambition

Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

For every ten men who are physically lazy there are ten thousand with stagnant minds. And stagnant minds are the breeding places of fear.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.

Motive is the seed from which big sales grow.

You will become what you want to be because of the dominating thoughts that you permit to occupy your mind.

Henry Ford has been repeatedly mentioned, because he is an astounding example of what a man with a mind of his own, and a will to control it, can accomplish.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way).

If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true!

Some people foolishly believe that only MONEY can make money. This is not true! DESIRE, transmuted into its monetary equivalent, through the principles laid down here, is the agency through which money is made. Money, of itself, is nothing but inert matter. It cannot move, think, or talk, but it can hear when a man who DESIRES it, calls it to come!

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve; not crude determinations; not errant purposes — but that strong and indefatigable will which treads down difficulties and danger, as a boy treads down the heaving frost-lands of winter, which kindles his eye and brain with proud pulse beat toward the unattainable. WILL MAKES MEN GIANTS!