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Quotes About Ambition

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.
~ Og Mandino
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction
~ Lily Tomlin
Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.
~ Faina Ranevskaya
Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough
~ Jay-Z
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
~ Bryant McGill
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
~ B. C. Forbes
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.
~ Tony Robbins
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
~ Zig Ziglar
The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it
~ Brian Tracy
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
~ Lou Gerstner
Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.
~ Anna Pavlova
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
~ Malcolm Forbes
When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again
~ Paula Cole
To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
~ Willa Cather
Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness
~ Brian Tracy
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
~ Thomas J. Watson
The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
~ Sam Shepard
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
~ Joyce Brothers
You have to surpass the levels of success that you have already achieved, and that's the challenge. But, it's a welcome challenge. I appreciate it because it brings the best out of me.
~ T.I.
In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
~ Stendhal
(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success
~ Michael Johnson