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| Lewis Carroll |
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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. |
| Pearl Bailey |
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| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind |
| Joseph Conrad |
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| Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. |
| Charlie McCarthy |
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| Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. |
| Robert Southey |
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| Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. |
| Buddha |
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| Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. |
| Bob Dylan |
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| I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?" |
| George S. Patton |
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| I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your v |
| Albert Einstein |
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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. |
| Joseph Conrad |
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| I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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