Ambition Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Vanity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.44, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Big results require big ambitions.

  Heraclitus

  Business, Ambitious, Results

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• Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

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• Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

  Bill Bradley

  Positive, Perseverance, Encouragement

  "Toni’s Take on Real Estate: The Three ‘P’s You Need" by Toni Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2012.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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  When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

  Jim Henson

  Differences, People, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite

  Josh Billings

  Law, Hunger, Appetite

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• Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

  Edward Young

  Powerful, Source, Ill

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.146

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• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  Oscar Wilde

  Determination, Growth, Germs

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

  William Lilly

  Inspirational, Motivation, Heaven

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• Ambition is no cure for love!

  Walter Scott

  Cures

  Sir Walter Scott (1849). “Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby”, p.9

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• Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Noble Man, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.77

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• Ambition is the mind's immodesty.

  William Davenant

  Mind

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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophical, Power, Desire

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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  Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

  Bo Jackson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Struggle, Mean

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• Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wings, And Love, Action

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• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hero, Pestilence, Admiration

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Ambition is the death of thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 77e), 1980.

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• Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Men, Doe, Action

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• Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

  Quintilian

  Father, Vices, May

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• If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

  Mildred H. McAfee

  Motivational, Trust, Courage

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