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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Boredom, Experience

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• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Honesty, Men

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

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• As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Blood, Hands

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Ninth”

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• Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Running, Sight, People

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

  Horace Walpole

  Feet, Naked, Necks

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• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

  Oscar Wilde

  Work, Failure, Lasts

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

  Henry Taylor

  Literature, May, Littles

  Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.132

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• Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

  Horace

  Heaven, Storm, Daring

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• It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

  Anthony Trollope

  Parent, Progress, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “Is He Popenjoy?: A Novel”, p.484, Simon and Schuster

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• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivation, War, Men

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• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  Daniel Boone

  War, Land, Monsters

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  Fanny Burney

  Expectations, Mind, Contentment

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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• To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

  Henry Drummond

  Caring, Men, World

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• At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Painting, Century

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• I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

  Jodie Foster

  Popcorn, Mainstream, Bigs

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• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Frustration, Skeletons

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

  Imran Khan

  Player, Outstanding, Wanted

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• A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

  Arthur Koestler

  Years, Hundred, Should

  In 'New York Times Book Review' 1 April 1951

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• My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Support

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• My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Mother, Hands, Clothes

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Country, Prey, Made

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations. In Three Volumes”, p.229

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• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  Lewis Carroll

  Education, Turtles, Different

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

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

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