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Ambition |
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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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| "Man is the only creature
that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible." |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "As he was valiant, I
honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him." |
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William Shakespeare
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| “Ambition
is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we
reach we are never satisfied.” |
| -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 -1527),
Italian historian, philosopher, statesman |
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"And he that strives to
touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw." |
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), English poet |
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| "Let him that would move the
world, first move himself." |
| -- Socrates (470?-399 BC), Greek
philosopher |
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| "The ripest peach is
highest on the tree."
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James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916), American poet |
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| "If men cease to believe
that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms." |
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Henry Miller
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| "A slave has but one
master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be
useful in bettering his position." |
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Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696), French writer |
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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 statesman |
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| "I have the same goal
I’ve had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world." |
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Madonna Louise Ciccione (1958 - ), American singer, dancer, actress |
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| "Hitch your wagon to a
star." |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Ambition is the last
refuge of the failure." |
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Oscar Wilde
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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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| "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 (1918-90), American
singer |
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| "Our ambition should be to
rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true
progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more." |
| -- Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913),
British banker, politician, naturalist |
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| "Blind ambition blinds. Lucid
ambition creates light, diffusing into the darkness from
one focused bright point. It is lucid ambition that makes a man or
woman great and makes mankind rise above what it was
yesterday." |
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--
Albert Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002), American writer |
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"I
long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
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| -- Helen
Keller, American author and lecturer |
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"No
bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
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-- William Blake (1757-1827), American poet,
painter |
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"The
best way out is always through."
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Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet |
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"Hold
fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that
cannot fly."
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-- Langston Hughes
(1902-1967), American poet
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| "The imagination of a boy is
healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there
is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the
character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition
thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness." |
| -- John Keats (1795-1821), British
poet |
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