101 Ambition Lady Boss Quotes
For The Ambitious Woman
Grab your Ambition Laby Boss Quotes.
Sometimes we just need a few good words to power our Ambition and inner Lady Boss!
We all have our dreams and ambitions in life. Knowing that successful people you look up to have also been where you are can help on your journey.
You don’t need to be
- the smartest,
- the fastest,
- the best,
- the most intelligent,
- the most informed,
You just need to be
- the one that keeps showing up
You are not alone!
Let these words of wisdom supercharge our ambitions!
Navigate to where you want to go:
- Lady Boss Quotes by Ambitious Women
- Lady Boss Quotes to Inspire Ambition
- Lady Boss Quotes for Ambition by Men
- What is Ambition Anyway?
Lady Boss Quotes by Ambitious Women
“The key to success is to start before you’re ready.” – Marie Forleo on ambition
“Take action daily to move your business forward.” – Amy Porterfield on ambition
Show up messy. Show up imperfect. But just keep showing up. – Jenna Kutcher on ambition
“Confidence is important but nothing of value can be achieved without hard work. There are no shortcuts to success if you aren’t willing to put in the effort.” – Heather Monahan on ambition
“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” — Anne Sweeney
“I want to do it all and I want to do it all now.” — Mindy Kaling
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
“I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” — Emma Stone
“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” — Rosalynn Carter
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose; it’s the fuel that drives your desires and dreams.” — Meghan Markle
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart
“If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.” — Nora Roberts
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
“Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” — Vera Wang
“It’s not about being perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.” — Jillian Michaels
“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” — Hillary Clinton
“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” — Shonda Rhimes
“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes — understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” — Arianna Huffington
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose and the courage to follow it through no matter what obstacles stand in your way.” — Angela Merkel
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.” — J.K. Rowling
“Success doesn’t come from what you do occasionally. It comes from what you do consistently.” — Marie Forleo
“Don’t let anyone tell you you’re weak because you’re a woman.” — Mary Kom
“Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” — Hillary Clinton
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estée Lauder
“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” — Anne Sweeney
“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” — Sheryl Sandberg
“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Golda Meir
“Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.” — Diane Sawyer
“The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.” — Pema Chödrön
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” – Maya Angelou
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
“When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.” – Ellen DeGeneres
Lady Boss Quotes to Inspire Ambition
“Coffee in one hand. Ambition in the other.”
“Dream big, work hard, and never apologize for being a fierce go-getter.”
“She believed she could, so she did.”
“Don’t think about the woman you want to become. Just wake up and be her.”
“Stay focused, stay fearless, and slay those goals.”
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”
“A true boss lady builds her empire with grace and ambition.”
“She’s not just a dreamer; she’s a doer, a believer, and a conqueror.”
“The only limit is the one you set for yourself. Break free and soar.”
“Rise, hustle, conquer, repeat. That’s the motto of a lady boss.”
“Empowered women empower women.”
“She’s not here to play small; she’s here to leave a legacy.”
“When they underestimate you, show them what determination looks like.”
“Ambition: the fuel that turns dreams into reality.”
“Gracefully ambitious, unapologetically powerful.”
“Time to make shit happen.”
“She’s a storm wrapped in the calm of confidence, ready to conquer the world.”
“In a world full of doubters, be your own biggest believer.”
“Success is sweetest when achieved on your own terms.”
“Create the life you can’t wait to wake up to each day.”
“She built a castle from her dreams and wore her crown with pride.”
“Work until your idols become your rivals.”
“Coffee in one hand, confidence in the other.”
“Behind every successful woman is herself.”
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”
Lady Boss Quotes for Ambition by Men
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Timothy Leary
“Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops. Neither should your dreams.” – Dwayne Johnson.
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” — Bill Bradley
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
“A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
“Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.” – Anthony Trollope
“Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.” – Bryant McGill
“Ambition is more than mere desire. It is desire plus incentive – determination – will to achieve the desire.” – Herbert Armstrong
“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.” – Oscar Wilde
“The heart is the epicenter of everything as it is where dreams, hopes and ambitions are born.” – Cess Gichuhi
“A dream without ambition is like a car without gas… you’re not going anywhere.” – Sean Hampton
“The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Motivation and ambition either come from fear or love, it’s up to you to choose.” – Kevin Kerr
“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.” – Samuel Johnson
“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.” – Sir John Denham
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” – William Shakespeare
“When your ambition is greater than your fear, your life will get bigger than your dream.” – Farshad Asl
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” — Christian D. Larson
“Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision and the courage to pursue it.” — Dr. Myles Munroe
“Success is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.” — Zig Ziglar
“Dream big and dare to fail.” — Norman Vaughan
“There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.” – Napoleon Hill
“Ambitions reveal direction.” – Mace Windu, Star Wars character
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.” – Elvis Presley
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” – Walter H. Cottingham
“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.” – Steven Brust
“Ambition beats genius 99 percent of the time.” – Jay Leno
“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” — Brian Tracy
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” — Charles Kingsleigh
“Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Christopher Columbus
What is Ambition Anyway?
Ambition is a strong desire to do or achieve something.
Did you know that Elizabeth Gilbert who wrote Eat, Pray, Love was a struggling writer in her 20s?
Did you know she had a friend whom she believed to be a far better writer than she was?
Did you also know that she kept going after that friend gave up?
This is what she said:
“ I had a friend in my 20s who was, and I still believe is, a far better writer than I was. Far better and far more naturally talented than me… I just remember the day when he was like, “I’m done.” And my sense, honestly, I was looking at his half-eaten shit sandwich and I was like, “Are you gonna finish that, dude? Because I’ll eat it. Because I, like, I’ll finish your half-eaten shit sandwich, to stay in this game, that’s how much I love this.“
– Elizabeth Gilbert
If that isn’t evidence that you don’t need to be the best, or even believe that you are the best, and that you just need to have ambition.
A true unwavering desire to accomplish your dream.
You’ve got this!
If you want to listen to the full interview with Elizabeth Gilbert, let me know in the comments & I’ll drop you a link!
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Article by Dora Jonsdottir
Dora Jonsdottir is the founder of SheStarters Guide. She’s an experienced SEO & Online Marketing Manager here to share her knowledge to help you build a location-independent life you love.
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