Ambition proverbs

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◆ Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

- Mae West99

◆ Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

- Donald Trump99

◆ I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

- Neal Shusterman99

◆ I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

- L.M. Montgomery99

◆ 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 Dalí99

◆ Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

- Salvador Dalí99

◆ We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

- Dave Eggers99

◆ As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

- Criss Jami99

◆ I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

- Donald Miller99

◆ Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

- Diane Setterfield99

◆ I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what's the use?' – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

- Gustave Flaubert99

◆ By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

- Robert Frost99

◆ Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

- Chuck Palahniuk99