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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 principles which direct them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, War, Character

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• For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.

  George Herbert

  Glorious Life, Trying, May

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.6

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• The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability

  William Feather

  Tragedy, Ability, My Ambition

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• The man who seeks one thing in life and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Regret, Men, Things In Life

  "Lucile". Book by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1860.

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• The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Success, Business, Men

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.133, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.

  Juliette Binoche

  Moments, Being True

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• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Men, Possible And Impossible

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• Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

  Bob Marley

  Love, White, Black

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• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disappointment, Sour, Fortune

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.15

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• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  Sallust

  Men, Tongue, Breasts

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Giving, Please, Grows

  Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Rose, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1821). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B..”, p.38

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• We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

  Heather Donahue

  Nice, Levels, Niceness

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• We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

  George Sand

  Stupid, People, Taste

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pride, Given, Ostentation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  Rachel Field

  Confused, Thinking, May

  Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”

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• Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Deception, Violence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Hair

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  Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Men, Tranquility

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• It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

  Alan Hansen

  Hands, Perception, Fans

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• I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

  Ally Sheedy

  Stars, Desire, Actresses

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• The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Prayer, Meditation

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• Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young person goes beyond desires, when a young person goes beyond greed, ambition, the longing to be powerful, the ambition to be famous, then it is something tremendously meaningful, significant.

  Rajneesh

  Meaningful, Sex, Powerful

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• Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.131, Classic Books Company

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• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

  John Dryden

  Love, Ice, Land

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.53

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• Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

  Annette Funicello

  Careers, Tenacity, Made

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