Ambitious Goals Quotes

• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• 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

  Giving, Goal, Focus

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• 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

  Umpires, Goal, Car

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

  Peter Diamandis

  Believe, People, Goal

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

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Dream, Hard Work

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2013

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• As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Ambition, Long

  Overruled (1916) p. 72

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• 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

  Moving On, Morning, Giving

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Ambition, Long

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2064, e-artnow

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• 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

  Motivational, Goal, Ambitious

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• 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

  Goal, Focus, Doubt

  "The 4-Hour Workweek". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• 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

  Love, Strong, Ambition

  "Google Beats Out Apple, Facebook, And Twitter For Most Popular Tech Brand: Poll" By Courteney Palis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Goal

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