Ambition Quotes
Ambition is not wanting more. It is refusing to waste potential. It is the quiet discomfort that says you can do better and the discipline to prove it with action. People confuse ambition with greed, but real ambition is about height, not hoarding: higher standards, higher output, higher responsibility. It is the willingness to be measured by what you produce rather than what you intend. Ambition quotes matter because they cut through the soft rationalizations that keep people stuck at the level where they started. When ambition is healthy, it focuses energy and makes sacrifice feel meaningful. When it is unfocused, it turns into noise. The difference is clarity about what you are actually building.
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
Letter: To General Jean Le Marois (July 9, 1813)
"Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming."
"I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp. Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 91."
"I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company, but because the founder wanted to change the world."
"I want to be a politician in the future. I want to change the future of my country."
"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
"I didn't care about the money. I cared about the legacy, and legacy requires constant work."
"The most successful companies make the world a better place by doing something for the first time."
"The only limit to your success is your own imagination and your willingness to work for it."
"The future is built by people who are dissatisfied with the present."
"You are exactly where you deserve to be based on the amount of work you've put in."
"Success brings enemies but it also brings total freedom"
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"Urgency is the heartbeat of a thriving organization."
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"Confidence is the ability to walk into a room and know you belong there."
"I want to be the best. And I’m willing to do the work that others aren't to get there."
"You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain with your self-interest."
"The first $100,000 is a bitch, but you gotta do it. I don't care what you have to do—if it means walking everywhere and not eating anything that wasn't purchased with a coupon, find a way to get your hands on $100,000."
"My dream was to come to America, and I didn't let anything stop me from getting here."
"To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks."
"You have within you the power to create the life you desire. Strength is acknowledging that you are the architect of your fate."
"Small thinkers don’t get the big breaks. If you want to get richer, think bigger first."
Website: Wikiquote - Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!)
"A lot of people say I'm a legend, but I don't look at myself as a legend yet. I have to keep working."
"If you aren't failing occasionally, you aren't pushing yourself hard enough."
"Stop hanging out with people who are content with where they are."
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game."
"If you are not working on the most important problem in your field, why are you working at all?"
"A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top."
"Work is the price which is paid for reputation."
Why these quotes matter
Ambition is the engine of the Drive pillar. It is what turns talent into results and ideas into execution over the long run.
How to apply them daily
Define the one outcome that would make the next 12 months matter. Work backward to a weekly output target and track it relentlessly. Remove one comfort habit that steals time from that goal. Use ambition as a filter: if an activity does not move the target, it does not belong.
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"Ambition is not pressure. It is direction. Point it well and it compounds."
