190+ Ambition Quotes: Inspire Yourself to Achieve Your Goals

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live for each second without hesitation.

— Elton John

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

— Criss Jami

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

— Maya Angelou

A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.

— Suzy Kassem

You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

— K.L. Toth

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

— Marty Rubin

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

— Suzy Kassem

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

— Aaron Lauritsen

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

— Roman Payne

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

— Suzy Kassem

As long as we have children seeking unrealistic dreams, anything is possible.

— H.S. Crow

True friends don't come with conditions.

— Aaron Lauritsen

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster than the freeway of spite.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.

— Aaron Lauritsen

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

— Aaron Lauritsen

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Without struggle, success has no value.

— Aaron Lauritsen

There is no such thing as loving a child too much.

— Aaron Lauritsen

The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster than the freeway of spite.

— Aaron Lauritsen

We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.

— Aaron Lauritsen

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Action achieves ambition.

— Amit Kalantri

Don't live off your past successes or failures, live for the next big pursuit.

— Aaron Lauritsen

The only real certainty is that if you get to live, you gotta die. Live life now.

— Aaron Lauritsen

The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Integrity is something we show, not proclaim.

— Aaron Lauritsen

Every man has an ambition. Let it be a good one. Just drive toward it with enthusiasm.

— Debasish Mridha

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

— Criss Jami

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

— Criss Jami

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

— Martina Boone

Momentum builds success.

— Suzy Kassem

People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need.

— Paulo Coelho

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

— Carl Sandburg

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

— Bryant McGill

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

— Bryant McGill

Every flower blooms at a different pace.

— Suzy Kassem

Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route: destruction!

— Olawale Daniel

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

— H.W. Brands

"You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire."

— Margaret Atwood

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

— Criss Jami

“Á”, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.

— Roman Payne

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere

— anywhere.

Ambition had a price, and that price was friendship.

— Eoin Colfer

I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.

— J.M. August

Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart.

— Fennel Hudson

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

— Joyce Rachelle

Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams.

— Bobby Darnell

I had no goals, no ambitions. That left me free to wander and amuse myself.

— Marty Rubin

one person's dreams can become another's baggage.

— Nilesh Rathod

My vision is to change the world and paint it with a brush that is powerful enough to make us one.

— Morgan Chabane

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.

— Constance Friday

Power is a beautiful thing.

— A.H. Septimius

I think this business of good vs. evil is of no interest to the power hungry.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

— Mae West

In politics what you see is not what you get.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Power hungry = life loving.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is politics, you do it or it does you.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Powerless = lifeless.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Every piece of art has a buyer. Only Time decides when the right buyer will see it.

— Suzy Kassem

Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

— Joyce Rachelle

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

— Criss Jami

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

— Napoleon Hill

If life throws you a few bad notes, don't let them interrupt your song.

— Suzy Kassem

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

— Anthony Liccione

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

— J.M. Barrie

Without ambition, no goal can be met.

— Kya Aliana

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

— Criss Jami

Mine is a quest, for a mouthful of skies!

— Deejay Kapil

The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.

— Suzy Kassem

Do not get lost in the flow of reality.

— Kevin Michel

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose.

— Amit Kalantri

People won't respect you until you achieve respectable goals.

— Amit Kalantri

I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

— Maya Banks

Let people stick to their philosophy, you stick to your passion.

— Amit Kalantri

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you sleep are nightmares.

— Amit Kalantri

What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.

— Marty Rubin

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.

— Habeeb Akande

Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way.

— Constance Friday

In every moment of choice, you create a new destiny.

— Kevin Michel

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

— Jane Yolen

Those who seize the day become seriously rich.

— Richard Koch

Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

— Fennel Hudson

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

— Dejan Stojanovic

I work so hard for profits because my dreams are expensive.

— Amit Kalantri

You can't achieve what you can't imagine being done.

— A.M.M Alusi

In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.

— Noel DeJesus

Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?

— Joyce Rachelle

Employee is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The map? I will first make it.

— Patrick White

Money as the sole ambition has no value.

— Habeeb Akande

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?

— Noel DeJesus

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

— Todd William

Status quo or grow: You are in control of your future.

— Mary Mihalic

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

— Emmet Fox

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

— Habeeb Akande

The successes and failures of yesterday are gone, today is a new day.

— Noel DeJesus

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

— Neal Shusterman

For what is more lovable than failure?

— Mervyn Peake

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

— Oli Anderson

Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are.

— Bryant McGill

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

— A.G. Street

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.

— Habeeb Akande

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

— Tim Fargo

I love living in the ghetto!" #PoorMindSet

— Habeeb Akande

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

— Phil Valentine

Ambition and poverty are powerful motivators...

— Jennifer Donnelly

Capture your youth, while you can.

— Anthony Liccione

Clear skin, a manicure, a couple dead zombies, and then fame!

— Faith McKay

Greatness should have no victims. Greatness should need no victims.

— Haroutioun Bochnakia

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

— Amanda Craig

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

— Abraham Lincoln

You will see true character after a defeated ambition.

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward.

— Benny Bellamacina

Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

— Herman Melville

Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

— Lois Lowry

It's time to stop following your dreams and time to start chasing them!

— Habeeb Akande

Always strive to get to the top in life because it's usually crowded at the bottom.

— Habeeb Akande

people who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for.

— Dave Matthes

ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart...

— Dave Matthes

You think I am going to give up now? I'm so close.

— Alex Rosa

Ambition is the ignition of a car we call life.

— Debasish Mridha

Ambition is the driving engine behind every great success.

— Debasish Mridha

Do your best, and your best will be growing better.

— Emma Willard

...you're either gonna spend your life chasing pleasure, or taking it to church.

— Dave Matthes

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

— Timothy Leary

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

— Richard Koch

A man is not a tree... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

— June Jordan

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

— Steven Erikson

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

— Nora Roberts

Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.

— Jemima Pett

Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.

— Paul Arden

Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.

— J.C. Lillis

No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one.

— Nilesh Rathod

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

— Bill Gates

A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.

— Faisal Khosa

There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.

— Marie Brennan

One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.

— Jules Verne

At the end, we will arrive where we started.

— Aditya Ajmera

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

— Dave Matthes

Peace is the first casualty in every ambition.

— Sweety Shinde

Trying to be more than human, one becomes less.

— Marty Rubin

True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner.

— Josh Stern

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

— Steve Jobs

If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.

— Habeeb Akande

Without drive you will never get anywhere in life.

— Habeeb Akande

You could never understand why I grind like I do.

— Nicki Minaj

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

— Diane Setterfield

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

— A.H. Septimius

I told myself that I was going to live the rest of my life as if it were Saturday.

— Chip Gaines

My only career goal is to be a Halloween icon.

— Nuno Roque

The tonality of my life is hidden behind my ambition.

— Tanmaya Guru

Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

— Manu Joseph

You are always a bishop with ambition and second as a fisher.

— Deyth Banger

Give your ambition a name.

— Clifford Cohen

If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.

— Benny Bellamacina

There is no friendship between kings.

— Jayne Castel

Beware of that demon called 'Changing The World'.

— Marty Rubin

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly.

— Akul Singh

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

— Jim Carrey

Always stay one step ahead, unless you're already there.

— Benny Bellamacina

What's important is the ambition that results from our weakness.

— Sharon Creech

He shed a lake of blood and murdered a king for a cold, lonely throne.

— Jayne Castel

Spending time with people without ambition is a self

— destruction.

Everyone

— black as well as white

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

— Enid Shomer

Look beyond what you can see, think potential.

— Samer Chidiac

If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.

— Habeeb Akande

The last goose in the column is flying just as high.

— Marty Rubin

Ambition is a stairway that never ends.

— Joyce Rachelle

"A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition."

— William Carmichael

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

— Frank Tyger

At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.

— Jack Woodford

Ambition is 'greed' rebranded.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We had made the error of staying small  and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

— Pat Conroy

Ambition is greed without makeup.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

— William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

— William Shakespeare

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

— Marcus Aurelius

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

— Jonathan Stroud

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

— Anthony Powell

Talents too many, not enough of any.

— Naomi Wood

Your ambition is the most reliable alarm clock.

— Faisal Khosa

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

— John Taliaferro

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour.

— Jerry Toner

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

— Dean Koontz

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

— Giovanni Boccaccio

For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.

— Ashish Jaiswal

Somewhere between what is...and what can be...begs the question...what are you meant to be?

— Manoj Vaz

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

— Amit Kalantri

The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.

— Lionel Suggs

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

— John Milton

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be. It exacts a full look at the Worst.

— Thomas Hardy