Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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Mark Twain

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that’s why they give up on it so early, too. Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small. If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.