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• When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

  Cullen Hightower

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

  Christian Wiman

  Home, Anxiety, Feelings

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• Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Powerful, Hopeful, Desire

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• Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it

  William V. Shannon

  Fall, Light, Accomplishment

  William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Religious, Lying, Secret

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• The only beneficiaries of income taxation are the politicians, for it not only gives them the means by which they can increase their emoluments, but it also enables them to improve their importance. The have-nots who support the politicians in the demand for income taxation do so only because they hate the haves; . . . the sum of all the arguments for income taxation comes to political ambition and the sin of covetousness.

  Frank Chodorov

  Hate, Mean, Giving

  "The Income Tax: Root of All Evil". Book by Frank Chodorov, New York: NY, Devin-Adair Company, p. 27, 1954.

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• To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Reality, Discipline, Demand

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• If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Legacy, Spirit

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• The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Names, Soul, Lust

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• Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Goal, Taste

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  A. C. Benson

  Work, Men, Hiking

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• They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

  Robert Burton

  Dog, Business, Men

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Passion, Life Ambition

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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.

  Wilson Mizner

  Men, People, Slave

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• Ambition is not a vice of little people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, People, Vices

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1269, Delphi Classics

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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

  David Hume

  Passion, Principles, Literature

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• Ambition has no rest.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 20-21, Richelieu (1839), Act III, scene 1, 1922.

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• If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

  Jack Kirby

  Fall, Mean, America

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

  Ilie Nastase

  Jobs, Good Job, Plans

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  No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

  Love, Motivational, Cute

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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• It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crazy, Book, Reading

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• It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

  Aristotle

  People, Wish, Seems

  Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, World, Mankind

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1771, Delphi Classics

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