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True success begins the moment you decide to strive for more. **Ambition** is the fuel that transforms a fleeting thought into a concrete reality. It pushes you to climb higher when others settle for average. However, maintaining that burning desire requires constant reinforcement.

"We all have the ability to come from nothing to something."
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Source: Book: Can't Hurt Me

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"You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential."
david goggins
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Source: Book: Can't Hurt Me

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"If you want to be one of the few, you have to do what the few do."
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Source: Talk: Speaking Engagement

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"Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self."
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Source: Book: Can't Hurt Me

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"Be uncommon amongst uncommon people."
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Source: Book: Can't Hurt Me

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"I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered."
John Keats
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Source: Inspired by: Letter: To Fanny Brawne

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"The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it."
Steven Pressfield
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Source: Book: The War of Art

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"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."
Brené Brown
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Source: Talk: TED Talk: The Power of Vulnerability

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"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."
Michael Phelps
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Source: Speech: Beijing Olympics Press Conference

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"I don't think limits."
Usain Bolt
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Source: Documentary: I Am Bolt

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"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems."
James Clear
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Source: Book: Atomic Habits

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"You have to be obsessed. You have to be all in."
Grant Cardone
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Source: Book: Be Obsessed or Be Average

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"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Steve Jobs
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Source: Speech: Apple Think Different Campaign Script

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"Obsession is the engine of greatness. If you're not obsessed, you're just average."
Grant Cardone
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Source: Book: Be Obsessed or Be Average

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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot
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Source: Book: Transit of Venus

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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
Amelia Earhart
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Source: Book: 20 Hrs., 40 Min.

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"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."
Oprah Winfrey
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Source: Talk: The Oprah Winfrey Show: Career Advice Episode

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"I never knew a man come to any eminence who lay in bed late in the morning."
Jonathan Swift
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Source: Letter: Journal to Stella

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
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Source: Speech: Address to Harrow School, 1941

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"In a startup, you have to do the hard things. The things that nobody else wants to do."
Ben Horowitz
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Source: Talk: Startup School

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"If you want to do something that matters, you are going to have to do things that are difficult."
Ben Horowitz
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Source: Interview: The Tim Ferriss Show

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"Jealousy is simply a blocked desire. It shows you what you want."
Mel Robbins
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Source: Podcast: The Mel Robbins Podcast

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"If you have the courage to start, you have the courage to succeed."
Mel Robbins
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Source: Book: The High 5 Habit

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"Startups are hard. If they were easy, everyone would do them."
Ben Horowitz
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Source: Talk: South by Southwest (SXSW)

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"The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place. The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer."
Ben Horowitz
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Source: Inspired by: Blog Post: The Struggle

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"If you want to do something really important, you must first quiet your mind."
Deepak Chopra
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Source: Book: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

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"There is no speed limit."
marc andreessen
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Source: Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience

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"Smart people should build things."
marc andreessen
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Source: Essay: It's Time to Build

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"Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential."
marc andreessen
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Source: Essay: The Techno-Optimist Manifesto

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"A startup is a company designed to grow fast."
marc andreessen
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Source: Essay: Startups vs Small Businesses

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"Great careers are not linear; they are a series of pivots."
Reid Hoffman
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Source: Book: The Start-up of You

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"You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future."
Reid Hoffman
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Source: Book: The Start-up of You

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"Establish an identity independent of your employer, city, and industry."
Reid Hoffman
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Source: Book: The Start-up of You

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"Great cities attract ambitious people."
Paul Graham
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Source: Essay: Cities and Ambition

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"Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things."
Paul Graham
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Source: Essay: How to Get Startup Ideas

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