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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

If at first you do not succeed, you must be doing something wrong.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

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.

Given the choice of friendship or success, I do probably choose success.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and only eating the top half of each one.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.