Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Success provides more opportunities to say things than the number of things a pundit has worth saying.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Nothing recedes like success.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Pubs make you as drunk as they can as soon as they can, and turn nasty when they succeed.
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Nature gave man two ends one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts not the facts themselves.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
The successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Success provides more opportunities to say things than the number of things a pundit has worth saying.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Nothing recedes like success.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Pubs make you as drunk as they can as soon as they can, and turn nasty when they succeed.
There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.