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“There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.”

Two Mistake Type Ambition Sloth

Author:Tim Ferriss

“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.”

Believe Long Made Matter Opportunity I Believe Mistake Greatness Ambition Worn Steadfast Screwed Up Worn Out Dejected

Book:Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

Source: Moving Forward: Taking The Lead In Your Life

“It is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption, although they may be very convenient for gratifying the ambition or the vanity of individuals, have any great effect upon the fortunes or the power of parties. And it is a great mistake to suppose that bribery and corruption are means by which power can either be ob-tained or retained.”

May Mean Individual Party Mistake Effects Ambition Fortune Corruption Vanity Convenient Great Mistakes Bribery

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

“Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.”

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“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

“I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff. What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition.”

Thinking Want Kind I Can Important Stuff Mistake Generations Ambition Being The Best Ambitious Lacking Our Generation Wrestler

Author:Daniel Bryan

“All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.”

Trying Made Said Hope Mistake Ambition

Book:Fireflood: and other stories

Source: Fireflood: and other stories

“But there is no substance under the things I have gathered together about me. I am hollow, and my structure of pleasures and ambitions has no foundation. I am objectified in them. But they are all destined by their very contingency to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of me but my own nakedness and emptiness and hollowness, to tell me that I am a mistake.”

Together Left My Own Pleasure Mistake Gone Ambition Foundation Structure Destroyed Substance Emptiness Destined Hollow Contingency Hollowness

Author:Thomas Merton

“It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.”

Action Passion Mistake Virtue Imagine Influence Design Masters Ambition And Love Violent Triumph Imagine That Idleness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It's a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.”

People Persons Has Beens Opportunity Mistake Position Huge Pride Cost Ambition Acknowledge Engaged Throwing Ambitious Respectful Hiring Wrong Person Opportunity Cost

Author:Ivanka Trump

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“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

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

Ifs Today Past Mistake Ambition Disappear Yesterday New Day Each New Day Quixotic

Book:The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel

Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam: A Novel

“It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.”

“Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.”

Mean Ends Happiness Wealth Mistake Ambition Continuing Avarice My Ambition Same Mistakes

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan