Top 200 Ambition Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

— Abraham Lincoln

52. “It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.”

— Les Brown

53. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

54. “All I know is grind.”

— Ray Lewis

55. “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”

— William Shakespeare

56. “People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

— Andrew Carnegie

57. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.”

— Jennifer Lee

58. “Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.”

— Grant Cardone

59. “Set your goal and keep moving forward.”

— Georges St-Pierre

60. “Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”

— Napoleon Hill

61. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”

— Steve Jobs

62. “You can be comfortable in your career or extraordinary. Which one are you going to be?”

— Sally Hogshead

63. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

— Coco Chanel

64. “Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”

— Dale Carnegie

65. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

— Jimmy Johnson

66. “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”

— Harvey MacKay

67. “Massive success is the best revenge.”

— Grant Cardone

68. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Gary Player

69. “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

— Napoleon Hill

70. “Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!”

— Grant Cardone

71. “Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

72. “I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.”

— Elon Musk

73. “When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.”

— Napoleon Hill

74. “The person that works the hardest wins.”

— Will Smith

75. “There are no shortcuts to success.”

— Annika Sorenstam

76. “You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

— Brian Tracy

77. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

78. “There’s no nobility in poverty.”

— Jordan Belfort

79. “Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!”

— T. B. Joshua

80. “Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.”

— Taylor Swift

81. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”

— Ted Turner

82. “Dream big, because dreams do happen.”

— Alex Morgan

83. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

— Howard Schultz

84. “Born to lose. Live to win.”

— Lemmy Kilmister

85. “The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.”

— Robin S. Sharma

86. “Nobody ever changed the world on 40 hours a week.”

— Elon Musk

87. “You get out what you put in. If you want more, give more.”

— Jeanette Jenkins

88. “Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one’s monopoly.”

— Dhirubhai Ambani

89. “Do what others refuse to do.”

— Grant Cardone

90. “Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

91. “Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.”

— Denzel Washington

92. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”

— Catherine Cook

93. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”

— Virat Kohli

94. “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.”

— Marva Collins

95. “As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”

— Abdul Kalam

96. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

— Henry Ford

97. “No one rises to low expectations.”

— Les Brown

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

— Bill Bradley

99. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

— Alfred Tennyson

100. “If it’s hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.”

— Les Brown