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Quotes About Ambition

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.
~ Lauren Fleshman
Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.
~ James Hetfield
The unfulfilling job is not the failure; not pursuing your dreams is the real failure. Developing a vision requires conquering your fears and finding motivation from within.
~ Peter Murphy
Any man who dies with more than $10000 to his name is a failure.
~ Errol Flynn
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.
~ Anita Shreve
I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.
~ John D. Rockefeller
I don't think in terms of failure....I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged to shoot for the moon.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Low aim, not failure, is the crime.
~ Bruce Lee
Failure isn't failure unless you just stop with that.
~ Miesha Tate
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
~ Samuel Johnson
Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.
~ Josh Linkner
There are no failures, only quitters.
~ Russell Simmons
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
~ B. C. Forbes
I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
~ Elon Musk
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
~ Steve Jobs
If you're not a target, you're a failure.
~ G. Gordon Liddy
You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success
~ Malcolm Mclaren
With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
~ Norm MacDonald
Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
~ Gavin Newsom
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
~ Gore Vidal
There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.
~ Henry Ford
My brain cannot process failure... It WILL not process failure
~ Kobe Bryant