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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
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“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead Quotes |
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“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
Buddha Quotes |
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“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
Bill Bradley Quotes |
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“I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?"”
General George S. Patton Quotes |
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Ambition has no rest!”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1)
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“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
[Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis,
tertiisque consistere.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Oratore (I)
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“On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!”
Eliza Cook Quotes Source: Thomas Hood
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“By low ambition and the thirst of praise.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 591)
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“On the summit see,
The seals of office glitter in his eyes;
He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,
Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,
And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,
And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. IV, l. 58)
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“The great refusal.
[It., Il gran rifiuto.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Inferno (canto III, LX), supposedly referring to Celestive V, elected Pope in 1294
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“But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198)
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“Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198)
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“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
Elizabeth I Quotes Source: Worthies of England (vol. I, p. 419), by Thomas Fuller, (written on window pane under words written
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“They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: The Traveller (l. 266)
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“For all may have,
If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Temple--The Church-Porch
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“I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (bk. I, 1)
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“Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm
heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Carmina (I, 3, 37)
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“No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (I, 1, 74)
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“I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (p. II, A Village Church)
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