Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Ambition.

The repository contains 30 quotes in the category “Ambition.”
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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803 — 1882

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.

Cicero
106 A.D. — 43

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake
1757 — 1827

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Chinese Proverb

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900

Ambition has no rest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 — 1873

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike
1932 — 2009

A vision without the ability to execute is probably a hallucination.

Stephen M. Case

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626

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