Quotes About Ambition

Success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Do it big or stay in bed.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.

Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-tie them.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

One of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeeded because I keep going, and going, and going.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

They who are the most persistent, and work in the true spirit, will invariably be the most successful.

The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.

All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.