Quotes by Subject: Ambition
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Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. | |||
Show me a mouser and I'll show you a cat with bad breath. | |||
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. | * | ||
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. | * | ||
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. | * | ||
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. | * | ||
The world belongs to the energetic. | |||
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. | |||
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner. | * | ||
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. | |||
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. | * | ||
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. | * | ||
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. | |||
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. | |||
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. | |||
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. | |||
There has never been a better time to saddle the naked ambition of the entrepreneur. | * | ||
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. | * | ||
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. | |||
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. (All About Eve) | |||
Let him that would move the world, first move himself. | * | ||
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. | |||
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. | |||
Every artist was first an amateur. | |||
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. | |||
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. | * | ||
Hitch your wagon to a star. | |||
When one is tryin to do something beyond one?s known powers it is useless to see the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. | |||
Every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. | |||
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. | |||
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. | |||
I'm just a girl from a trailer park with a dream. | * | ||
All I want is everything. | * | ||
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? | |||
I'm full, but I want more. | * | ||
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big. | * | ||
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