Ambition

QUOTES

No matter how good you get, you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.
 Tiger Woods
 2003

'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all.
 Arthur Clough
  Peschiera, 1854

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
 William Faulkner
 

Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
 John Milton
 Paradise Lost, 1667

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. 
 Thomas Fuller
 

Hitch your wagon to a star.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 Society , 1870

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
 Robert Browning
 Andrea del Sarto, 1855

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
 William Blake
 1792

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
 Henry Ford
 1916

Climb, high, climb far. Your goal the sky, your aim the star.
 Anon
 inscription at Williams College, 1900

I had rather be right than President. 
 Henry Clay
 1850

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
 David Lloyd George
 

See Also Work Power Greed

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