Top 200 Ambition Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.”

— Steve Jobs

102. “The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.”

— Jim Rohn

103. “Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!”

— Denis Waitley

104. “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.”

— Lady Gaga

105. “Commit yourself to something bigger than yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

106. “I’m definitely on the pursuit of perfection. I will always be learning.”

— Conor McGregor

107. “I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

— Tupac Shakur

108. “If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough.”

— Tory Burch

109. “My ambition cannot be stopped!”

— Cao Cao

110. “When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.”

— Oprah Winfrey

111. “Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

— Nikola Tesla

112. “If you want to have more, you have to become more!”

— Jim Rohn

113. “Losers react. Winners anticipate.”

— Tony Robbins

114. “Criticism is the price of ambition.”

— Robin S. Sharma

115. “All I want to do is change the world.”

— W. Clement Stone

116. “Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.”

— Tim Ferriss

117. “Remember your dreams and fight for them.”

— Paulo Coelho

118. “As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”

— George Bernard Shaw

119. “Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.”

— Zig Ziglar

120. “Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.”

— John C. Maxwell

121. “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”

— Jay-Z

122. “As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.”

— Grant Cardone

123. “The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”

— Napoleon Hill

124. “Don’t go to work to work, go to work to prosper.”

— Grant Cardone

125. “If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

— Zig Ziglar

126. “Most of you say you want to be successful, but you don’t want it badly enough. You just kind of want it. You don’t want it more than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want to sleep.”

— Eric Thomas

127. “If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!”

— T. Harv Eker

128. “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”

— Elvis Presley

129. “It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.”

— Charlie Munger

130. “If hard work, integrity, thrift, and perseverance have caused you to succeed, then you don’t owe anyone an apology for winning.”

— Dave Ramsey

131. “When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.”

— Myles Munroe

132. “To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you.”

— Swami Vivekananda

133. “If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.”

— Julius Caesar

134. “At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.”

— Brian Tracy

135. “Take your passion and make it happen.”

— Irene Cara

136. “Take action in order to move toward your goals.”

— Les Brown

137. “When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.”

— Elon Musk

138. “I’m about being the best.”

— Frank Ocean

139. “Your family is depending on you. There’s no better reason to bring your A-game all the time.”

— Grant Cardone

140. “I see only my objective – the obstacles must give way.”

— Napoleon

141. “Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

142. “What you believe, you can achieve.”

— Mary Kay Ash

143. “Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.”

— Wanderlei Silva

144. “Anyone can be an entrepreneur. All it takes is a little drive and ambition.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

145. “Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.”

— Oscar Wilde

146. “Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.’”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

147. “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

— Malcolm X

148. “Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.”

— T. Harv Eker

149. “My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

— Charles Bukowski

150. “You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.”

— Napoleon Hill