Ambition
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"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction" George Lorimer [May 20, 2011
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"To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible." Robert Southey
"You are never too old to be what you might have been." George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited." Earl Nightengale
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." John Pierpont Morgan
"The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man 'fronts' a fact." Henry David Thoreau, from the chapter "Thursday" in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.” Harry Anderson
“Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.” Eric Hoffer |
