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• To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Sex, Independence, Great Day

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• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Country, Men

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• Many people wants to be the president...they have ambition. Just ambition is not enough.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, People, President

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• Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Talking, Bourgeoisie

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• Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Envy, Enemy

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• Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Truth, Joy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.932, Library of Alexandria

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• Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Needs

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• I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

  Lee Atwater

  Country, Eye, Dimes

  Life Interview, January 1991.

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• Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, War, Past

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• Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart

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• Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

  Napoleon Hill

  Doe, Way, Destruction

  Napoleon Hill, Steve Berges (2010). “Think and Grow Rich: Collector's Edition”, p.185, American Liberty Press

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Thinking, Climbing, Goal

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• It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

  Thomas Keneally

  Art, Abandon

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• The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Dream, People, Secret

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• I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Beautiful, Mean, Ties

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• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

  Thomas Merton

  August, Blood, Land

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

  Alan Cohen

  Feel Good, Recognition, Feels

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Never allow anyone to take YOUR spirit away from you.

  Khloe Kardashian

  People, Trying, Spirit

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• Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

  Arianna Huffington

  Careers, Matter, Code

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• I have no fear, I have only ambition, and I want mine, And I will do anything to protect and feed my family.

  Tupac Shakur

  Want, No Fear, My Family

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• My ambition is always to get better and better.

  Lionel Messi

  Get Better, My Ambition

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• Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

  Tory Burch

  Important, Titles, Want

  "Tory Burch Explains The Importance Of Having Male Mentors" by Meredith Lepore, www.businessinsider.com. April 23, 2014.

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• A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

  Neel Burton

  Teacher, Men, Degrees

  FaceBook post by Neel Burton from Jan 06, 2014

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• True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.

  Ryan Holiday

  Humility, Resilience, Weakness

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.123, Profile Books

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• I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

  Corin Nemec

  Areas, I Can

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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