Top 56 Goals Ambition Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Goals Ambition

#1. To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

Criss Jami

#2. Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!

Ron Baratono

#3. In every moment of choice, you create a new destiny.

Kevin Michel

#4. I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Margaret Heffernan

#5. We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself; if they don't sound slightly impossible then they aren't set high enough.

Noel DeJesus

#6. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

Connor Franta

#7. Self pity is the sworn enemy of your ambition. It is the number one killer of your aspirations and goals. Give it a foothold in your life and you'll chase away every dream, dreamt and every friend, befriended.

Jason Versey

#8. An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Criss Jami

#9. The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.

Habeeb Akande

#10. I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing
I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.

Dara Torres

#11. Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.

Noel DeJesus

#12. A goal will always tell you where you don't want to be.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. Soar to heights where you may view the world from a new perspective.

Fennel Hudson

#14. I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.

Jean Chatzky

#15. When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the
unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

Brendon Burchard

#17. A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

Brian Tracy

#18. Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Habeeb Akande

#19. I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.

Scott Cohen

#20. It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but you know this ... you are already there.

Carl Henegan

#21. You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Simon Le Bon

#22. Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

Italo Calvino

#23. Optimism is a much more enabling mindset than hard-core realism, and it's far superior to pessimism ... [because] Hope helps move us in the direction of our goals and ambitions.

Price Pritchett

#24. Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams

Bobby Darnell

#25. The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

Rajneesh

#26. Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. Armstrong was perfect for their goals - an extraordinary combination of athletic talent, drive, ambition, and ruthlessness. And once he began winning, he became the chairman and CEO of the business of making himself rich and famous.

Reed Albergotti

#28. Set Goals, not Limits.

Manoj Vaz

#29. Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

L. Ron Hubbard

#30. What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval? I'm someone. I approve. So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination.

Hassan Al-Banna

#32. I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.

Steve Maraboli

#33. An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

Brian Tracy

#34. On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.

Aaron Lauritsen

#35. We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

William Friedkin

#36. Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.
Blend them together for one potent brew.
The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task everyday of my life ... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.

Ruskin Bond

#38. Be strong and courageous. You can achieve your goal.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'
[What It Is (2009)]

Dylan Moran

#40. Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

Shannon L. Alder

#41. I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

John Wooden

#42. Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Kya Aliana

#43. Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#44. Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#45. The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#46. Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?

Darnell Lamont Walker

#47. The negative thoughts inside my head blown into a multiple rays of hope for my goals in life; adding some motivated aspects of my ambition triggered my inner sanctum to prolong the basic human emotions.

Fernando Lachica

#48. None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn't stop anyone from trying to make the climb.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#49. If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Nadine Gordimer

#50. Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

Richelle E. Goodrich