49 Quotes About Ambition and Success

It only takes a few moments and a few words to get you focused on recharging your motivation meter. Having ambition and success are two winning qualities. These quotes about ambition and success will keep you focused on the end goal.

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.”

“A man’s worth is not more than the worth of his ambitions.”

“Action is the foundational key to all success.”

“After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: “What did I do right?” and “What would I do differently?”

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“Ambition beats genius 99% of the time”

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

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

“Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence.”

“Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

“Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.”

“He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.”

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.”

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

“I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”

“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”

“In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

“Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings”

“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.”

“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.”

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”

“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”

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

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.”

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.”

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.”

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.”

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the stars, never buy a coffee table you can’t put your feet on, never pass up a chance to jump on a trampoline, don’t overlook life’s small joys while searching for the big ones.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.”

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”

Jump starting your initiative and being focused on success is just one way to keep on track.