Quotes About Ambition

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Giving up is the greatest failure.

Drifting, without aim or purpose, is the first cause of failure.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.

Success is somebody else's failure.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.

Failure builds muscle, determination, and dreams.

I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

Remove failure as an option.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

If you must fail ... fail spectacularly!

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.