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• Ambition and suspicion always go together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Together, Suspicion

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• Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Loyalty, Men

  "United States v. Wunderlich, 342 U.S. 98, 103". Judicial opinion, 1951.

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• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Passion, Astronomy, Infinite

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• Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Advice, Deaf, Reason

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.239

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• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Enemy, Want

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.26

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• Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
  To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

  Crazy, Mad, Choices

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

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• When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Writing, Men

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• The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?

  Rajneesh

  Successful, Giving, Anxiety

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• Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.

  Rajneesh

  Educational, Mean, Use

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• Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him - we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become part of the great culture, the great church, the great state to which we belong. Our whole politics is stupid, and then HE becomes stupid. Our whole education is ugly. Our politics means nothing but ambition, naked ambition - ambition for power. And only the lowest kind of people become interested in power.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Stupid, Mean

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• The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Somewhere Else, Creating

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• Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.

  Rajneesh

  Roots, Political, Mind

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• All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Eye, Men

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• Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Children, Moving

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• My ambition is peace and perfection.

  DeForest Kelley

  Perfection, My Ambition

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• Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

  James M. Barrie

  Work, Mind, Noble

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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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Mean, Men

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• I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

  Joan of Arc

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Fear

  "While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt" by Heidi Schlumpf, (p. 37), 2009.

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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  Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

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• Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

  Drake

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

  Roman Abramovich

  Funny, Success, Sports

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• The dreams I chased took me on a journey,a journey more rewarding than the goals

  Shahrukh Khan

  Inspirational, Dream, Journey

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• He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Dream

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1978). “Goethe's Faust: An abridged version”

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• He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

  Lord Byron

  Jealousy, Hate, Looks

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing

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