Mary Kay Ash on ambition
Mary Kay Ash93 quotes“An average person with average talents and average ambition can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society; if that person has clear focused goals.”
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Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
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Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Over the years, I have observed that nearly all high achievers know how to make good of those 1440 minutes in each day.
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Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Be the kind of person who can always be counted on to do what you say you’ll do.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Everyone has obstacles to overcome, but those with great faith can conquer whatever stands in the way.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash Recognition is the most powerful of all motivating techniques.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash If you act enthusiastic, you will become enthusiastic. A mediocre mind that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash I was taught to put my best into anything I did and I can honestly say I’ve always done that. Still, there are many times when I failed, when I was disappointed.
Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don’t like to do.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson Fears, even the most basic ones, can totally destroy our ambitions. Fear, if left unchecked, can destroy our lives. Fear is one of the many enemies lurking inside us.
Jim RohnJim Rohn Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
Barack ObamaBarack Obama A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
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