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Inspirational Quotes About Ambition

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Index_card_top “Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.”
 
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680);
Writer, Moralist
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Index_card_top “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
 
Wayne Gretzky (born 1961);
Retired Professional Ice Hockey Player
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Index_card_top “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”
 
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961);
Swedish Political Leader, Secretary General Of The United Nations
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Index_card_top “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.”
 
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915);
Philosopher, Author, Publisher
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Index_card_top “Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
 
Washington Irving (1783-1859);
Author
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Index_card_top “Ambition beats genius 99 percent of the time.”
 
Jay Leno (born 1950);
Comedian, Televison Host


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Index_card_top “Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men.”
 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);
16th U.S. President
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Index_card_top “Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.”
 
Wilferd A. Peterson (1900-1995);
Author, Businessman
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Index_card_top “At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it would have reduced Hester Prynne's transgression to pale pink.”
 
Anna Quindlen (born 1953);
Journalist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
 
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862);
Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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Index_card_top “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 (1815-1882);
Novelist


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Index_card_top “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 (1835-1910);
[Samuel Clemens] Humorist, Essayist, Novelist
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Index_card_top “Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal. ”
 
Maxwell Maltz (1899-1975);
Author
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Index_card_top “Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.”
 
Harvey Mackay (born 1932);
Author, Motivational Speaker


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“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ”
 
Lao Tzu (600-531);
Philosopher
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Index_card_top “This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.”
 
Liz Murray (born 1980);
Inspirational Speaker


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“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”
 
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865);
16th U.S. President
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“I don't think about what I have done. I only think of the things I want to do, and I haven't done.”
 
Martha Graham (1894-1991);
American Modern Dancer And Choreographer


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