Ambition is the driving force behind every great achievement.
It’s the fire that pushes us to reach beyond what we thought possible, to overcome obstacles, and to create a future better than the one we have today.
These 101 ambition quotes will remind you that success doesn’t come easily, but with passion, grit, and the right mindset, anything is possible.
Best Ambition Quotes
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.” – Dhirubhai Ambani
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
“A person with a good purpose has nothing to fear.” – Nelson Mandela
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
“Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.” – Marie Forleo
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” – Charles Kingsleigh
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – David Frost
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” – Bo Bennett
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” – Epictetus
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen R. Covey
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.” – Anonymous
“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Ryun
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” – Napoleon Hill
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
“Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” – Zoey Sayward
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” – Robert Kiyosaki
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett
“When you cease to dream, you cease to live.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” – David Frost
“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.” – Marie Forleo
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
“Success is a journey, not a destination.” – Arthur Ashe
“To achieve greatness, start where you are.” – Anonymous
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving.” – Conrad Hilton
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.” – Zoey Sayward
“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” – Colin R. Davis
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Believe in yourself and all that you are.” – Christian D. Larson
