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• Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

  William Clark

  Selfish, Ambition, Boys

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• The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ambition, Forever, Flattery

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• I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

  Theodor Herzl

  Mistake, People, Wish

  Theodor Herzl (2015). “A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Effort, Fancy

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.508

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• To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court

  Philip Sidney

  Inspirational, Real, Ambition

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• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Honesty, Lying, Book

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.601, Penguin

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• A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Book, Reading, Past

  Charles Horton Cooley (2017). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.308, Routledge

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

  Carl Sagan

  Ambition, Science, Perfect

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

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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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• I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition.

  Michael Jackson

  Life, Children, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

  Joan of Arc

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Fear

  "While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt" by Heidi Schlumpf, (p. 37), 2009.

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  Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

  Wilfred Owen

  Funny, Ambition, Numbers

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.479, Delphi Classics

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• Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

  Jay Inslee

  Umpires, Goal, Car

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• As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Life, Ambition

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  Walter Scott

  Nature, Ambition, Perfection

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Ambition

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

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• The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

  William Penn

  Inspirational, Ambition, Power

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.849

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• Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Journey, Cities, Orchestra

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. December 1, 2004.

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• But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.

  Robert Towne

  Dark, Thinking, Shampoo

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• You think of stars as ambitious or aggressive or self-oriented.

  John Turturro

  Stars, Thinking, Self

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• A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

  Elizabeth I

  Strength, Reality, Hands

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• Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

  Joe Rogan

  Successful, Games

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