90 Ambitious Goals Quotes

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Famous Ambitious Goals Quotes

Big results require big ambitions. - Heraclitus

Big results require big ambitions. — Heraclitus

Big results require big ambitions. — James Champy

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations. — Gary Hamel

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. — Steve Garvey

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. — Roy T. Bennett

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. — Satya Nadella

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. - Michael Korda

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. — Michael Korda

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. — Prince William

Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results. — Mark Victor Hansen

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. - William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. — William Shakespeare

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Don't be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams. — Dwayne Johnson

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou

Goals And Ambitions Quotes

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

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude. — Shane Warne

We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. — Sheryl Sandberg

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Whatever you do, be it small, big; have a goal and believe in yourself. — Markiplier

Dream big. There is nothing seen that wasn’t imagined. There’s no overnight success. You have to start by dreaming big and working towards your goal. — Folorunsho Alakija

My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement. — Royal Robbins

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try. - Dennis DeYoung

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try. — Dennis DeYoung

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen. — Chuck Norris

For me, once the goals was set I had to try and do my best to achieve it. — Martyn Ford

A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself. — Deena Kastor

Lofty Goals Quotes

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. — John Ruskin

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment. — Greg Norman

When you aimlessly shoot for lofty goals, with no personal connection to them, you loose sight of what really matters, and what will really make you content. — Jinkx Monsoon

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt. — Leon M. Lederman

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

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement — Michael Josephson

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment. — Marvin J. Ashton

The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do. — Ted Turner

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Søren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can. — Georg Brandes

Goals And Aspirations Quotes

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them. — Eminem

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. — Evan Esar

The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are. — Esther Hicks

My goal there on the business side of things is to become the Dr. Dre of social media. He was mentoring younger artists and helping them launch their careers, like Eminem. — Jake Paul

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement. — Kurt Lewin

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. — Harvey Mackay

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. — Louisa May Alcott

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. — Marshall McLuhan

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them. — Brian Tracy

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work. — Brian Tracy

Being Ambitious Quotes

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. — David Brainerd

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be. — William Clark

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. — Amy Poehler

I knew that one day I would come to this point that I would make something so outrageous and so ambitious that... it'd be that Don Quixote feeling, that I'd have to tilt at a windmill. Sometimes you've got to do it. That's the only way you can do things. — Oliver Stone

Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive. — Chris Sharma

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. — Fisher Ames

Angels in America' - which is composed of two three-hour plays, 'Millennium Approaches' and 'Perestroika' - proved to be a watershed drama, the most lyrical and ambitious augury of an era since Tennessee Williams's 'The Glass Menagerie. — John Lahr

I absolutely adore and idolise women. All women. I think they are all amazing. The female musicians I've met have been far more inspiring than the male ones. Women tend to be much more creative and ambitious. I think I may have been a woman in a past life. — Robert Plant

I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong. — Stuart Pearson Wright

High Ambition Quotes

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. — Ian Curtis

As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to be admired but also to be followed. — Eric Liddell

The highly ambitious person, in spite of all his successes, always remains dissatisfied, in the same way as a greedy baby is never satisfied. — Melanie Klein

I finished my junior year of high school and flew out to Los Angeles. I didn't know the difference between a manager and an agent. But I got here and just started hustling and meeting anyone I could. — Jake Paul

We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress. — Kylian Mbappe

I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. — E. O. Wilson

It’s just the game itself that drives me. I just want to be able to compete at a high level. — Kawhi Leonard

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes. — Roman Polanski

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More Ambitious Goals Quotes

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself. — Robert Solow

I want to optimize the chance for people to make it to 110 healthy. That's it. So, to make it to 110 healthy, you have to solve it all, and it's a very ambitious plan. — Valter Longo

The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it. — Ralph Marston

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction. — Srikumar Rao

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. — Chantal Kreviazuk

Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves. — James C. Collins

The desire to reach hearts is wise — Maya Angelou

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. — Ban Ki-moon

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious! — Freeman Dyson

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency. — Jay Inslee

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success. — Peter Diamandis

Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear. — Tim Ferriss

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy — Deepak Chopra

We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing . — Larry Page

The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable? — Tom Hunter

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious. — Hillary Clinton

If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement. — Laszlo Bock

We have a pretty ambitious goal for the world. What we think will make the Web better. What we think will make all these businesses that integrate with us run more effectively. I think if we stay focused on doing that, that's really the main thing that we need to do. — Mark Zuckerberg

I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art. — Damian Pettigrew

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap. — Darren Criss

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is the erosion of ambition. The political goal presupposes the two others. The human characteristic required by statism is docility, which is the product of hopelessness and intellectual stagnation. Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate. — Ayn Rand

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