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Inspirational Quotes About Ambition

Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

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“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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“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
Washington Irving
(1783-1859); Author
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“Ambition beats genius 99 percent of the time.”
Jay Leno
(born 1950); Comedian, Televison Host
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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 [Samuel Clemens]
(1835-1910); Author, Humorist
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“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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“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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“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862); Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
Wayne Gretzky
(born 1961); Retired Professional Ice Hockey Player
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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