The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo Buonarroti

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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Jane Wagner

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Every man has a secret ambition: to outsmart horses, fish, and women. Mark Twain

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Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. John Stevenson

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• work
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner

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• self improvement
• ambition

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. Robert Fritz

• desire
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Always dream big dreams. Big dreams attract big people. Dave Liniger

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The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illuminated by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt. They haven't time. Melvin Evans

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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. Thomas Huxley

• ambition
• progress

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Henry David Thoreau

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Ambition is okay as long as you can control it. When it starts controlling you, you've got problems. Red Auerbach

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I have never read where a woman has given birth to a salesman, or a doctor, lawyer, artist, engineer, etc. However, I do read where doctors, lawyers, salesmen, etc., die. Since they are not "born," but they do "die," obviously, somewhere between birth and death, by choice and by training, they become what they wish to become. Zig Ziglar

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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. Gaius Crispus

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong

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I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. Og Mandino

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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. Bryant McGill

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There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition. Napoleon Hill

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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. Niccolò Machiavelli

• ambition
• risk
• decisiveness

Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer. Niccolò Machiavelli

• ambition
• mistakes
• initiative

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.

Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.

Sanity means tying it to your own actions. Marcus Aurelius

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• ambition

This is the source.

Ambition can creep as well as soar. Edmund Burke

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Ambition is about work-work we want to do for God. But the work we want to do is always built on a work done for us. Godly ambition is gospel ambition. We dream because God rescued our corrupted, selfish ambitions and gave us the capacity to desire, dream, and work for his glory.

So desire great things. Dream big dreams. Get out there and get to work. This world is in need of redeemed people ambitious for God's glory and willing to do something about it. Why shouldn't that be you? Dave Harvey

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