Barack Obama on ambition
Barack Obama97 quotes“I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.”
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Barack ObamaBarack Obama Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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Barack ObamaBarack Obama We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
Barack ObamaBarack Obama Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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Our dreams have to be bigger. Our ambitions higher. Our commitment deeper. And our efforts greater. This is my dream for Reliance and for India.
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Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed, you must have a larger ambition.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
John D. RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller I’m not ambitious. I don’t want to get anywhere, I don’t want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don’t want anything. I don’t want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
Adam SmithAdam Smith Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Sai BabaSai Baba Traditionally women have been more reticent to acknowledge their ambition and to say it with pride. So I like having people who work for us who are ambitious, engaged, respectful. Mis-hiring is a huge mistake. It’s a tremendous opportunity cost throwing the position to the wrong person.
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