Quotes About Ambition

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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too can become great.

Mark Twain

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

C. S. Lewis

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

Christopher Reeve

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

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

Bette Davis

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Robert Browning