Motivational Quotes to Keep You Going – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Horace Mann

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Wilfred Owen

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

John Webster

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Benjamin Disraeli

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A. C. Benson

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Walter Savage Landor

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

John McCarthy

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

Byron Dorgan

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

James F. Cooper

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Quintilian

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Noel Coward

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Robert Browning

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Hosea Ballou

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Oliver Herford

I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.

Jeanette Winterson

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carl Sagan

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Karl Von Clausewitz

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.

Leigh Steinberg

We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going.

Morrie Schwartz

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

Man Ray

I don't think any collector knows his true motivation.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Michael Korda

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Sam Levenson

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

Lajos Kossuth

As long as I'm healthy and can keep going that's what I'll do.

Gunther Schuller

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Michael Korda

Believe in yourself and stop trying to convince others.

James De La Vega

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Salvador Dali

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

Stephen Cambone

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Marcus Aurelius

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

James M. Barrie

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Steven Brust

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Lascelles Abercrombie

While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Dorothy Denning

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ben Jonson

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Angela Carter