Top 200 Ambition Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

— Conrad Hilton

152. “What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn’t fail?”

— Brian Tracy

153. “Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you’re going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.”

— Will Smith

154. “Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That’s how they expand.”

— Robin S. Sharma

155. “Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”

— W.H. Auden

156. “The biggest changes in a woman’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

157. “Aim for the highest cloud so that if you miss it, you will hit a lofty mountain.”

— Maori Proverb

158. “I want it all and I want it now.”

— Freddie Mercury

159. “I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.”

— Frank Sinatra

160. “Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.”

— Napoleon Hill

161. “Ambition is not a vice of little people.”

— Michel de Montaigne

162. “Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.”

— Barack Obama

163. “Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will.”

— Jack Welch

164. “We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”

— L.M. Montgomery

165. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”

— Mae Jemison

166. “Don’t expect front row seats if you’re giving nosebleed effort.”

— Eric Thomas

167. “Each failure brings you one step closer to success.”

— Zig Ziglar

168. “You can’t climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.”

— Zig Ziglar

169. “All progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

170. “My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

171. “Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”

— Orison Swett Marden

172. “To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.”

— Hans Selye

173. “When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”

— Jim Henson

174. “Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”

— Jim Rohn

175. “You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

176. “Ambition, fueled by compassion, wisdom and integrity, is a powerful force for good that will turn the wheels of industry and open the doors of opportunity for you and countless others.”

— Zig Ziglar

177. “I’m going to let love lead the way, always. And I was born with this blind – blind ambition, and it’s kind of gotten me here to this point. And I think that I’ll stick to it.”

— Katy Perry

178. “Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.”

— Marcus Aurelius

179. “Your ambition outweighed your talent.”

— Casey Stoner

180. “When ambition ends, happiness begins.”

— Thomas Merton

181. “To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

182. “I didn't want to just be a body building champion. I wanted to be the best body builder of all time. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

183. “So let me tell you, as you prepare to go off into the world, remember six rules: Trust yourself, Break some rules, Don’t be afraid to fail, Ignore the naysayers, Work like hell, and Give something back.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

184. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

— Albert Einstein

185. “The only way to coast is downhill.”

— Zig Ziglar

186. “Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.”

— Arianna Huffington

187. “Success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.”

— Greg Plitt

188. “Happiness is man’s greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.”

— Epicurus

189. “Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.”

— David Nicholls

190. “For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.”

— Johnny Depp

191. “Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”

— H. G. Wells

192. “The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.”

— Chris Gardner

193. “Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

— John Milton

194. “History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.”

— Edmund Burke

195. “Compromise for your Dream but NEVER Compromise on your Dream.”

— Imran Khan

196. “If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.”

— Michael Jordan

197. “Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.”

— Brian Tracy

198. “Don’t ever go with the flow. Be the flow.”

— Jay-Z

199. “I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else’s life better then you are wasting your time.”

— Will Smith

200. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

— Napoleon Hill