#ambition

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#despair #despair-hope #encouraging #facet #hope

You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#inspirational #life #life-lessons #inspirational

Without drive you will never get anywhere in life. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#drive #inspirational #motivation #inspirational

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#inspirational #motivational #self-improvement #success #inspirational

Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect. ↗

— Jemima Pett

#inspirational #inspirational

My second wife left me because she said I was too ambitious. She didn't realize that it is only the dying who are free from ambition. And they probably have the ambition to live. Some men disguise their ambition--that's all. I was in a position to help this young man my wife loved. He soon showed his ambition then. There are different types of ambition - that is all, and my wife found she preferred mine. Because it was limitless. They do not feel the infinite is an unworthy rival, but for a man to prefer the desk of an assistant manager - that is an insult. ↗

— Graham Greene

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I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ↗

— Herbert Kaufman

#coaches #courage #failure #habit #long

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. ↗

— Lynn Davies

#enjoyed #great #i #sportsman #youngster

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

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