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Short Motivational Quotes

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Thomas Jefferson

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Charles Baudelaire

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Motivational Quotes About Success

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Robert Burton

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

Whitfield Diffie

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

George A. Sheehan

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

Herbert Kaufman

Commitment and co-operation to overcome barriers and difficulties, and determination to achieve the standards of the EU as well as NATO membership, are and have always been the principal target.

Alfred Moisiu

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Mario Andretti

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Benjamin Disraeli

Positive Motivational Quotes

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

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

Bryant H. McGill

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Andre Gide

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

More Motivational Quotes

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Thomas Jefferson

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Thomas Menino

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Roger Ebert

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

Henry James

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Michael Bloomberg

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

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

Sallust

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Wilson Mizner

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Samuel Richardson

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Raymond Chandler

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

Edward Dahlberg

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Norman Mailer

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

George Lucas

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Milan Kundera

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Marian Wright Edelman

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

William Feather

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.

John Engler

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Henry A. Kissinger

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

George Lucas

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Xun Zi

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Emile M. Cioran

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

Martin Bashir

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Walter Savage Landor

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Vincent Van Gogh

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

Mercy Otis Warren

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

Taylor Caldwell

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Baruch Spinoza

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Michael Shermer

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

Sidney Sheldon

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Anthony Trollope

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Richard M. Nixon

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