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• My ambition is to be happy.

  Penelope Cruz

  Happy, Actresses, True Happiness

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• Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Mistake, Mean

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.84

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• Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Two, Mind

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• Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

  Petrarch

  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

  "De vita solitaria". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1346.

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• Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Work, Winning

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• Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

  William Shakespeare

  Stuff, Ides Of March, Made

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [97]

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• Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

  Bob Riley

  Fighting, Drug, Enemy

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• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
  [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

  Quintilian

  Parent, Vices, Virtue

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Encouragement, Money

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

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• If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

  Phil McGraw

  Encouragement, Ambitious, Want

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

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• It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Powerful, Grief, Adversity

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• Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Design, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield

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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

  Robert Kennedy

  Art, Passing Moments, Soul

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

  Robert Burton

  Inspirational, Confidence, Men

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• When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Opportunity, Honorable

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I), 55 BC.

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Money, Attitude, Goal

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

  Thomas Otway

  Philosophy, Lust, Enjoyment

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• Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

  Edgar Quinet

  Often Is, Parent, Vices

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• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Peculiar, Fellow Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

  Ovid

  Sleep, Wish, Desire

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• The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Perfect, Environmental

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.230, Ballantine Books

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• The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Lady Macbeth, Sides

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 16

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