My Ambition Quotes - Page 3

• As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Teenager, Ambition

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

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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

  Ambition, Differences, People

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

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• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Courage, Badass

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Work, Philosophical, Ambition

  In Memoriam canto 73 (1850) See Rhodes 2

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

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• The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Ambition, Law, Ideas

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• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Failure, Ambition

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

  Shakti Gawain

  Ambition, Idols, Wings

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• Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ambition, Government, Design

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

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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. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Work, Ambition

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• The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

  William Feather

  Ambition, Tragedy, Ability

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• The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Ambition, Literature

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• Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

  Arthur Helps

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Nature, Teaching, Ambition

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• As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Principles, May

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• Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Weakness, Hopelessness, Born

  "Malala Up Close: A Heroine And A Joking Teenager". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 2, 2015.

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• If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

  Phil McGraw

  Encouragement, Ambition, Ambitious

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

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• The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Regret, Ambition, Men

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

  Henry Miller

  Work, Believe, Ambition

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fall, Ambition, Loss

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• For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

  George Herbert

  Ambition, Glorious Life, Trying

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.6

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• Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Ambition, Son

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.134

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

  Edgar Quinet

  Ambition, Often Is, Parent

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