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Quotes About Ambition

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
~ Robert Browning
Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
~ Mae West
Success and money can really be quite blinding.
~ Jim Harrison
Above all, you want to create something you're proud of.
~ Richard Branson
With any level of success you get some non-musical things that come along - money, ego - and it's easy to lose your perspective and get off doing what you did to get there.
~ Joe Walsh
Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.
~ Leonard Bernstein
The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.
~ Mark Cane
Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais
I am made, crudely, for success.
~ Sylvia Plath
There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
~ Napoleon Hill
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
~ Eric Burdon
There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.
~ Judy Sheindlin
The reason or motivation you have for making money or creating success is vital.
~ T. Harv Eker
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
~ Charlotte Eriksson
You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.
~ Orrin Woodward
Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.
~ Eli Broad
If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.
~ Alain de Botton
Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.
~ Tim Fargo
I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.
~ Kathleen Winsor
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
~ Noel Gallagher
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
~ Tim Ferriss
Define the limits of your vision: Having this, you will not be poorer Than a man who rules a dukedom.
~ Su Shi
"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."
~ Michael Jackson