Source: Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
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“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.”
“Ambition is not a vice of little people.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.”
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
“The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
“Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.”
“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”
Source: Cosmos
“As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.”
“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
Source: Hamlet
“So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
“Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.”
“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
“My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.”
“Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“My ambition was to live like music.”
Source: Veronica
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”
“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”
Source: The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha
“My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.”
Source: Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace