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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Work, Men, Ambitious

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• All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

  Charles Cotton

  Spring, Blessing, Profit

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• If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Time, Artist

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• I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

  Emanuel Celler

  Sight, Smell, Sound

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• The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Two, Objects

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• Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sublime, Lines, Crime

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

  Lynn Davies

  Sports, Athlete, Youngsters

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• The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

  Peter Ustinov

  Truth, Atheism, Truth Is

  International Herald Tribune, March 12, 1990.

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• If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

  Henry Miller

  Work, Believe, Men

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Might, Achieve, Certain

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• Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Politics, Libertarian

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• And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Mad

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.196

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• Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.

  Kimi Raikkonen

  Champion, Racing, World

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• My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

  Michael Strahan

  Jobs, Salary, Craziest

  "Talking Points: Clemens On Viagra & More" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

  Anjelica Huston

  Running, Bored, Actresses

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• Such joy ambition finds.

  John Milton

  Joy

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

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• There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

  Giorgio Armani

  Artist, Ego, Consumers

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• But see how oft ambition's aims are cross'd, and chiefs contend 'til all the prize is lost!

  Alexander Pope

  Lost, Crosses, Chiefs

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• Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.

  Dom DeLuise

  Boys, Thinking, Ties

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• He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fall, Loss, Raises

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• Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Sloth, Moderation

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• I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.345

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• Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Light, Shadow

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Hamlet”, p.155, Classic Books Company

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• Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Heart, Fame, Trumpets

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