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“To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.” —Tom Robbins “I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see. And pursuing that vision.” —Howard Schultz “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein, Famous quotes “Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” —Dag Hammarskjold “If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt “Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.” —Bette Davis “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” —Elbert Hubbard “You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.” —Henry Ford “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” —Mark Twain “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving... we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it... but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. “Every calling is great when greatly pursued.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court “Always do what you are afraid to do.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Famous quotes “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” —Robert Francis Kennedy “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” —Segoyewatha, Red Jacket “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” —Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th U.S. President “Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men.” —Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), 16th U.S. President “It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.” —Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), novelist “Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.” —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), writer, moralist “One may be old in years, but not in spirit, or poor in wealth, but not in ambition.” —Chinese proverb “The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.” —William Hazlitt (1778-1830), essayist “At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it would have reduced Hester Prynne's transgression to pale pink.” —Anna Quindlen (b. 1953), journalist, novelist “No friendly hands constructed and placed for his ambition a ladder upon which he might climb. His own brave hands framed and nailed the cleats upon which he climbed to the heights of public usefulness and fame.” —Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), 23rd U.S. president “Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.” —Wilfred A. Peterson “Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.” —Earl Nightingale (1921-1989), entrepreneur, motivational author “If you turn on the lights fast enough, you can see what the dark looks like.” —Bono / U2 “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb “Work is love made visible.” —Khalil Gibran (1883– 1931), artist, poet, and writer “You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.” —Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), comic actor, filmmaker, writer “Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability. ” —Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), Novelist, short story author, essayist, screenwriter
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