Lack Of Ambition Quotes

• There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

  Napoleon Hill

  Ambition, People, Weakness

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.71, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

  Napoleon Hill

  Dream, Ambition, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.28, Penguin

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  Big results require big ambitions.

  Heraclitus

  Business, Ambition, Ambitious

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• It's the lack of ambition that cripples most people, and makes them so pedestrian in the advertising/creative business

  David Ogilvy

  Ambition, People, Creative

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

  George W. Bush

  Ambition, Humor, Political

  Interview with the Associated Press, January 18, 2001.

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• We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency.

  Harvey Mansfield

  Party, Ambition, Political

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• Sometimes, I think there's a lack of ambition in me. But then sometimes, I think, no, you can, like William Blake said, you know, see heaven in a grain of sand. If you look really, really closely at a situation, you can find almost endless interest in it.

  Emma Donoghue

  Ambition, Thinking, Heaven

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

  Joe Greene

  Ambition, Thinking, Faults

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• 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

  Ambition, Long, Pay

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.121, Criss Jami

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• not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

  Cornelia Parker

  Children, Ambition

  Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”

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• ... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Ambition, Race, Role Models

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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