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Quotes on Ambition

A Select Collection of Quotes on Ambition

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Henry Ford: Quotes on Ambition
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

Charles F Kettering: Quotes on Ambition
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

Mikhail Baryshnikov: Quotes on Ambition
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

James R. Cook: Quotes on Ambition
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Milton Berle: Quotes on Ambition
I'd rather be a "could-be', if I cannot be an "are'; because a "could-be" is a "maybe" who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a "has-been" than a "might-have-been', by far; for a "might-have-been" has never "been", but a "has" was once an "are'.

Seneca: Quotes on Ambition
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Anonymous: Quotes on Ambition
If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

Mildred McAfee: Quotes on Ambition
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

Henry David Thoreau: Quotes on Ambition
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Robert Townsend: Quotes on Ambition
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's ok. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

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