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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.