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You have to believe in yourself.

Sun Tzu

Philosopher · Chinese

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

John Hutton

Educator · English · b. 1965

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Anthony Trollope

Author · English · 1815 – 1882

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Philip Massinger

Poet · British · 1908 – 1908

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

Christa McAuliffe

Astronaut · American · 1948 – 1986

So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

Philippe Perrin

Astronaut · French · b. 1963

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

Poet · American · 1849 – 1916

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Sidney Sheldon

Novelist · American · 1917 – 2007

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Charles Babbage

Mathematician · English · 1792 – 1871

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.

Les Brown

Businessman · American

You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

Renny Harlin

Director · Finnish · b. 1959

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Arthur Golden

Writer · American

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

Statesman · Irish · 1729 – 1797

But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.

Alberto Gonzales

Public Servant · American · b. 1955

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Andrew Jackson

President · American · 1767 – 1845

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

Harvey Pekar

Writer · American · b. 1939

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

Ella Maillart

Writer · Swiss · 1903 – 1997

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

Anita Desai

Novelist · Indian · b. 1937

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

Charles Spurgeon

Clergyman · British · 1834 – 1892

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dali

Artist · Spanish · 1904 – 1989

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

Horace Walpole

Author · English · 1717 – 1797

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Jane Smiley

Writer · American · b. 1949

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Theophrastus

Philosopher · Greek

Ambition aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille

Dramatist · French · 1606 – 1684

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Dino De Laurentiis

Director · Italian · b. 1919

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

George H. Mead

Philosopher · American · 1863 – 1931

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination.

George Jackson

Activist · American · 1941 – 1971

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Thomas Otway

Dramatist · English

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

Learned Hand

Judge · American · 1872 – 1961

Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.

Francis Crick

Scientist · English · 1916 – 2004

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Giorgio Armani

Designer · Italian · b. 1934

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

James L. Buckley

Politician · American · b. 1923

I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

Richard V. Allen

Public Servant · American

There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.

George Gillespie

Theologian · Scottish

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

Paul J. Meyer

Businessman · American

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Shakti Gawain

Author · b. 1948

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

James Larkin

Activist · Irish · 1875 – 1947

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Businessman · Egyptian · b. 1929

Never give in and never give up.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Politician · American · 1911 – 1978

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Russell Banks

Author · American · b. 1940

Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.

John Strachan

Clergyman · Canadian · 1778 – 1867

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

Renny Harlin

Director · Finnish · b. 1959

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Abraham Lincoln

President · American · 1809 – 1865

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Janet Flanner

Journalist · American · 1892 – 1978

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

Rachel Corrie

Activist · American · 1979 – 2003

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Chuck Yeager

Aviator · American · b. 1923

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