Ambition Quotes
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."— Mark Twain
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Meaning of this quote
Supportive people strengthen ambition rather than diminishing another person's confidence.
Key takeaway:
Seek honest encouragement and give it to others.
Origin of the quote
Gay Zenola MacLaren's memoir Morally We Roll Along (1938), recalling advice from Twain.
Who actually said this?
A later recollection of a conversation, not a contemporaneous Twain manuscript.
