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

topic: Motivational, Attitude, Acceptance, Inspirational Money, Inspirational Money Making

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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Believe, Achieving Your Goals, Reaching Goals

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

topic: Giving, Goal, Focus, Ambitious Goals

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

topic: Goal, Car, Ambitious, Ambitious Goals

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

- Peter Diamandis

topic: Believe, Goal, People, Unifying, Energizing

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

- Dwayne Johnson

source: Twitter post from Mar 30, 2013

topic: Motivational, Dream, Hard Work, Ambitious Goals, Hard Rock

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Life, Ambition, Long, Dissatisfaction, Ambitious Goals

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

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

topic: Moving On, Morning, Giving, Ambitious Goals, Goals And Ambitions

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

topic: Justice, Long, Way, My Ambition, Ambitious Goals

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

topic: Motivational, Goal, Ambitious, Ambitious Goals

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

topic: Goal, Focus, Doubt, Undefined, Ambitious Goals

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

topic: Strong, Ambition, Goal, Large Companies, Ambitious Goals

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

topic: Running, Thinking, Goal, Ambitious Goals