Ambition Quote by Ryan Holiday

“Willpower: "This virtue, like moste virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only…

— James Baldwin

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

— George MacDonald

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

— Eliphas Levi

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity,…

— Albert Schweitzer

In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“Being strong-willed is not enough, however. You also have to be hard on yourself. Someone who was strong-willed but self-indulgent would not be called…

— Paul Graham

True strength is shown by the person who remains humble, quiet, & positive throughout all adversity and maintains their path towards success.

— Behdad Sami

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

— Anonymous

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

— H. G. Wells

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes,…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help…

— Marshall Goldsmith