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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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| A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
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Pearl Bailey(1918-1990, American vocalist, movie and stage actress) |
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| Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
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Judith M. Bardwick(1933-, American academic) |
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| Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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James M. Barrie(1860-1937, British playwright) |
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| All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer) |
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| Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
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Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821, French general, emperor) |
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| Ambition is not what man does... but what he would do.
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Robert Browning(1812-1889, British poet) |
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| What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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Robert Browning(1812-1889, British poet) |
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| Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Edmund Burke(1729-1797, British political writer, statesman) |
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| Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Robert Burton(1576-1640, British clergyman, scholar) |
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| As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Lord Byron(1788-1824, British poet) |
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| Big results require big ambitions.
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James Champy(American author and international management consultant) |
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| The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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Herbert N. Casson(American author) |
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| The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Marcus T. Cicero(c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician) |
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| Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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Charles Caleb Colton(1780-1832, British sportsman writer) |
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| A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Joseph Conrad(1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist) |
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| I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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James R. Cook(1728-1779, British navigator) |
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| The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.
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Charles Horton Cooley(1864-1929, American sociologist) |
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| I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.
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Laurel Cutler(American business executive) |
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| Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977, American author, critic) |
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| At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Salvador Dali(1904-1989, Spanish painter) |
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| Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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C. Archie Danielson |
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| Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Sir John Denham(1615-1668, British poet, dramatist) |
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| There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
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Henry Van Dyke(1852--1933, American protestant clergyman and writer) |
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| It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
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George Eliot(1819-1880, British novelist) |
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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. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882, American poet, essayist) |
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| Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Thomas Dunn English(1819-1902, American physician, lawyer) |
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| Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Oliver Goldsmith(1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright) |
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| I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Angus Grossart(American business executive) |
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| He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Samuel Johnson(1709-1784, British author) |
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| Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Eric Hoffer(1902-1983, American author, philosopher) |
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| I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Horace(BC 65-8, Italian poet) |
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| Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Horace(BC 65-8, Italian poet) |
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| When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
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Kenneth Kaunda(1924-, Zambian politician, president) |
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| Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
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David Hume(1711-1776, Scottish philosopher, historian) |
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| To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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Samuel Johnson(1709-1784, British author) |
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| We grow small trying to be great.
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Eli Stanley Jones(1884-1973, American missionary) |
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| As soon as we attract enough attention in the world to play a part in it, we are set rolling like a ball which will never again be at rest.
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Charles Joseph |
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| Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Joseph Joubert(1754-1824, French moralist) |
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| Ambition never comes to an end.
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Yoshida Kenko |
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| A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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Jean De La Bruyere(1645-1696, French classical writer) |
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| The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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Jean De La Bruyere(1645-1696, French classical writer) |
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| Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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James Russell Lowell(1819-1891, American poet, critic, editor) |
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| Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
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Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593, British dramatist, poet) |
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| He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
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Lao-Tzu(BC 600-?, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism) |
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| Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Timothy Leary(1921-1996, American actor) |
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| Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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William Lilly |
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| Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
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Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865, American President (16th)) |
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