Ambition Quotes

"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."

- Jack Kerouac

"There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games."

- Earnest Hemingway

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."

- Neil Armstrong

"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."

- Harrison Ford

"What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats."

- Paulo Coelho

"Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks."

- Daniel Kahneman

"I cook, I create. I’m incredibly excited by what I do. I’ve still got a lot to achieve."

- Gordon Ramsay

"Work for me, and all this will be yours: respect, power …"

- Scarlet Overkill

"Steal me the crown, and all your dreams come true. Respect power!"

- Scarlet Overkill

"By the time she was 13, she built a criminal empire!"

- Tina

"I have a dream, and it's not some MLK dream of equality. I want to own a decommissioned lighthouse. And I want to live at the top. And nobody knows I live there. And there’s a button that I can press and launch that lighthouse into space."

- Stanley Hudson

"If I can't be famous I'll be notorious."

- Oscar Wilde

"Only double lines we cross is dollar signs."

- Beyoncé

"Used to say I spoke, 'Too country' / And the rejection came, said 'I wasn’t country 'nough' / Said I wouldn’t saddle up, but / If that ain’t country, tell me what is?"

- Beyoncé

"Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail."

- Ruby Bridges

"Buy on the fringe and wait. Buy land near a growing city! Buy real estate when other people want to sell. Hold what you buy!"

- John Jacob Astor

"The house you looked at today and wanted to think about until tomorrow may be the same house someone looked at yesterday and will buy today."

- Koki Adasi

"There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

- Wayne Dyer

"Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors."

- Konstantin Stanislavski

"Not everyone is going to like what you do or what you have to offer; however, if you can’t see yourself doing anything else, and you have the drive and ambition, get the training and go for it."

- Kristin Chenoweth

"Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this moment, believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you."

- Suzan-Lori Parks

"If you’re going to go for a thing, there’s no point unless you’re going all the way."

- Cynthia Erivo

"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."

- James Baldwin

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."

- James Baldwin

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it."

- Ali, Muhammad

"Travel as much as you can, as far as you can, as long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place."

"You are capable of achieving great things. Use this afternoon to take a step closer to your dreams. Good afternoon!"

"You are capable of amazing things. Don't let anyone or anything hold you back. Good afternoon, and keep reaching for the stars!"

"Escape the ordinary"

"Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t."

- Anonymous