Quotes on Ambition

Ambition is okay as long as you can control it. When it starts controlling you, you've got problems.Red Auerbach

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I have never read where a woman has given birth to a salesman, or a doctor, lawyer, artist, engineer, etc. However, I do read where doctors, lawyers, salesmen, etc., die. Since they are not "born," but they do "die," obviously, somewhere between birth and death, by choice and by training, they become what they wish to become.Zig Ziglar

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• potential

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

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.Erica Jong

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• talent

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.Og Mandino

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

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There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.Napoleon Hill

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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.Niccolò Machiavelli

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• risk
• decisiveness