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Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make read more
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.
We grow small trying to be great.
We grow small trying to be great.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, read more
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
