Quotes About Ambition

Great success is a great temptation.

Show me success without ego!

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.

Some people's measure of success is how much they can grab hold of and hold on to.

We have to succeed, so we will.

Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.

I want success. I want to do something. I really want people to remember my name.

Success is the most valuable commodity.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Commitment doesn't guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you'll fall far short of your potential.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.