Ambition Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Perfection lacks opportunity for growth. Learn the value of error, especially the errors of others. Do not equate good luck with virtue, and do…

— Stina Leicht

“Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant…

— Eugene Delacroix

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of…

— Karl Marx

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused…

— Brian Tracy

Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his…

— Samuel Johnson

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

— Jennifer Fallon

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

— Abraham Lincoln

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

— Samuel Johnson