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Ambition Quotes

    “Faith is daring to put your dream to the test. It is better to try to do something and fail than to try to do nothing and succeed.” ~ Robert H. Schuller

      “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

        “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

          “Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.” ~ Dale Carnegie

            “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively.  Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth.  Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

             

              “Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.” ~ Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

                “Be the one they want injured in the warmup. Who blurs the line between hate and respect. Who can never be stopped, only feared. Make your mark in each and every game. Today, tomorrow, next saturday.” ~ Unknown

                  “When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.” ~ Cullen Hightower

                    “The greater danger for most of us isnt that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~ Michelangelo

                      “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

                        “If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you.  Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it.  Your job is only as big as you are.”  ~ George Hubbs

                          “Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” ~ James Russell Lowell

                            “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester

                              “As long as you’re going to think anyway, think big.” ~ Donald Trump

                                “Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.