Having an ambitious and positive outlook on life will provide you with joy and inspiration. Of course, there are times when it’s difficult to feel cheery or positive.
Challenges are one of the best ways to spark innovation, test your mettle, and make an impact. Far too many times, we sidestep opportunities because we are too afraid of taking chances to go from “I wish I could do that” to “Been there, done that”.
The key is to not give in to setbacks and fall into the trap of negativity. If at first you don’t succeed, try again. In the case of failed entrepreneurs, research shows you are more likely to find success the second time around.
Don’t limit your challenges, challenge your limits instead.
To encourage you to embrace new challenges, here are my top 25 most motivational life quotes only ambitious people will understand:
The 25 Most Motivational Quotes Only Ambitious People Will Understand
The 25 Most Motivational Quotes Only Ambitious People Will Understand
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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon
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“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie
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“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.”
― Dalai Lama
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“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”
― Plato
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“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein
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“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole
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“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
― Heraclitus
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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman
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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong’. Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charles M. Schulz
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“I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.”
― George Plimpton
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“Action expresses priorities.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
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“My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.”
― Marcel Proust
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“If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
― C.G. Jung
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“For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
― George Bernard Shaw
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller
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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Ertan Enginalev is a Turkish-American hedge fund manager and private equity investor who specializes in corporate restructuring, hostile takeover, and shareholder activism. He is the founder of WSD Capital Management, a value-oriented investment firm that commits people, capital, and fortitude to develop outstanding assets into outstanding companies through benevolent hostility.
