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Ambition Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “There was a time when I used to say: ‘I will do many things in life, and refuse to die before I have completed those tasks, for I am a giant.’: but now I have indeed a giant’s task in hand- the task of dying as though death were nothing to me.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.”

Camille Paglia

3. “I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.”

Camille Paglia

4. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

J.P. Morgan

5. “Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

J.P. Morgan

6. “Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.”

J.P. Morgan

7. “It was not really a question of price. It was a question of success.”

J.P. Morgan

8. “Millionaires don’t have astrologers, billionaires do.”

J.P. Morgan

9. “The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.”

John D. Rockefeller

10. “Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

John D. Rockefeller

11. “I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.”

John D. Rockefeller

12. “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

John D. Rockefeller

13. “The battle of life is already half won by the young man who is brought in contact with high officials; and the great aim of every boy should be to do something beyond the sphere of his duties- something which attracts the attention of those over him.”

Andrew Carnegie

14. “Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I’ll show you a winner every time.”

Andrew Carnegie

15. “Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

Andrew Carnegie

16. “Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.”

Andrew Carnegie

17. “Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.”

Andrew Carnegie

18. “Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.”

Andrew Carnegie

19. “I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.”

Andrew Carnegie

20. “My theory is that when you’re young, you should work eighty hours a week to create a product or service that changes the world.”

Guy Kawasaki

21. “The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.”

Guy Kawasaki

22. “Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.”

Guy Kawasaki

23. “I’ve always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?”

Guy Kawasaki

24. “We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.”

Charles Lamb

25. “Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

Charles Lamb

26. “I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.”

Charles Lamb

27. “Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!”

Charles Lamb

28. “I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”

Margaret Fuller

29. “It's ok to have a job and not want to startup. Just saying!”

Ankur Warikoo

30. “Just because someone has a job, doesn't make them less ambitious, less capable and not cool.”

Ankur Warikoo

31. “We are taught to admire the extraordinary. But we are raised to become ordinary.”

Ankur Warikoo

32. “For the next 10 years, all I want to do is to build a company that people don’t think can be built!”

Ankur Warikoo

33. “If we do not know what we truly want from life the most, at that point of time, the next best thing that we want is EVERYTHING!”

Ankur Warikoo

34. “Everything has a market. The question is how big is it and whether that matches your ambition.”

Ankur Warikoo

35. “I believe in always having goals, and always setting them high.”

Sam Walton

36. “I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.”

Sam Walton

37. “If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.”

Jack Ma

38. “Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth.”

Jack Ma

39. “We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.”

Jack Ma

40. “If we go to work at 8 am and go home at 5 pm, this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-to-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.”

Jack Ma

41. “If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.”

Jack Ma

42. “I started my life with Rs 5,000.”

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

43. “I'd be lying if I said I didn't like the money, but that's not what motivates me.”

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

44. “My father was a person who always allowed me to do what I wanted but he told me you want to go to a stock market, first get yourself qualified. So, I qualified myself as a chartered accountant and my dad said what do you want to do? I said I want to go to the stock market. He asked what will you do? I said I invest.”

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

45. “You do not succeed without obsession.”

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

46. “Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers, and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.”

Pythagoras

47. “One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.”

Democritus

48. “Thus ambitious spirits in a commonwealth, when they transgress their bounds, are apt to do more harm than good.”

Plutarch

49. “Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.”

Plutarch

50. “So inconsiderable a thing is fortune in respect of human nature, and so insufficient to give content to a covetous mind, that an empire of that mighty extent and sway could not satisfy the ambition of two men.”

Plutarch