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“In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is”

Thinking Way Greatness Ambition Slippery

Book:Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

Source: Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine

“I believe that no matter how many mistakes weve made; how badly weve really, really screwed up; how old, worn out, or dejected weve become; as long as there is true, steadfast ambition, all of us have an opportunity for greatness.”

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Book:Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

Source: Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

“We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.”

Natural Pleasure Greatness Ambition Conscience Rejects Willpower Suitable Be Humble

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne

“Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.”

Thinking Men Sides Wealth Greatness Sweet Fame Office Ambition Bitter

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.”

Men Dream Young Mistake Youth Greatness Genius Ambition Ill Young Man Suggestions Misled

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your control. It's the desire for greatness.”

Dream Desire Hope Grows Space Greatness Ambition Roots Your Dreams

Book:Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.”

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Author:Garry Kasparov

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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Author:John D. Rockefeller

“The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.”

“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.”

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Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?”

Heart Ends Wisdom Lost Greater Greatness Ambition Difficulty Patience Fortune Endure Dare Hostile Intrigue Tire

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“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.”

Action Suffering Courses Acting Mistake Impossible Risk Danger Greatness Ambition Making Mistakes Avoiding Prudence Sloth Calculating

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”

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Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“What great changes have not been ambitious?”

Change Greatness Ambition Ambitious Great Change

Author:Melinda Gates

“O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!”

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Book:The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon

Source: The History of the World: In Five Books. Viz. Treating of the Beginning and First Ages of Same from the Creation Unto Abraham. Of the Birth of Abraham to the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Time of Philip of Macedon. From the Reign of Philip of Macedon to the Establishing of that Kingdom in the Race of Antigonus. From Settled Rule of Alexander's Successors in the East Until the Romans (prevailing Over All) Made Conquest of Asia and Macedon

“The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.”

Soul Literature Greatness Ambition Aim

Author:Mason Cooley