Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
- Wilbert E Sheer
I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I have been.
- A. A. Milne, - Winnie the Pooh (Fictional Character)
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne, - Piglet (Fictional Character)
Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne, - Winnie the Pooh (Fictional Character)
I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
- A. A. Milne, - Winnie the Pooh (Fictional Character)
Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
- A. A. Milne, - Winnie the Pooh (Fictional Character)
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne, - Winnie the Pooh (Fictional Character)
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
- William Winter
I’d say thistles, but nobody listens to me, anyway.
- A. A. Milne, - Eeyore (Fictional Character)
Ambition is an idol on whose wings great minds are carried to extremes, to be sublimely great, or to be nothing.
- Thomas Southern
What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.
- Willis
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side
- William Shakespeare
Just as there are three R's there are also three A's of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.
- Wilbert E Sheer
Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
- William Shakespeare
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shad
- William Shakespeare
No bounds his head long, vast ambition knows.
- Rowe
'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.
- William Shakespeare
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train
- Roger Penrose
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
- Quarles
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
Ambition is a lust that's never quenched, grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment.
- Otway
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
- John Lubbock
A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.
- Jean La Bruyere