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Henry Ford
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commenting on his consecutive-game streak (211 at the time of this article)
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Robert L. Schwartz
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
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Harold Taylor
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man???.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that
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Mark Twain
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious
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Louis Untermeyer
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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William Arthur Ward
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From compromise and things half done,
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last the fight is won,
God, keep me still unsatisfied.
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Pearl Bailey
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded. ??? We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hithe
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
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Terry Josephson
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Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
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Edmund Burke
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 92.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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Michael Korda
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An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
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Thomas Jefferson
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Walter Savage Landor
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
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Timothy Leary
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Joyce Brothers
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
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Jeb Stuart Magruder
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I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass.
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Ilie Nastase
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. (running for mayor of Bucharest, Romania)
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Sallust
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Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii, Sc. 2.
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Fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels: how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
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Jonathan Swift
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i, Sc. 7.
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I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other.
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Henry Van Dyke
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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
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WILLIAM WINTER: _Queen's Domain._
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
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William Osler
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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John D. Rockefeller
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The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
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Ken Keys
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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John Webster
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Vain ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
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Sir John Lubbock
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Hal
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I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.
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Herbert Kaufman
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
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Francesco Petrarch
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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.
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Voltaire
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You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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Robert Merton Solow
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It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
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Walter Lippmann
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The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something mor
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 262.
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To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
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John Milton
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Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 261.
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Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
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Anna Garlin Spencer
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.
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Sylvia Plath
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Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
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Albert Einstein
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I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)
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John Keats
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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.
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William Shakespeare
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He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man.
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William Shakespeare
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O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone
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Blow
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George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Where ambition ends happiness begins.
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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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 m
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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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.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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We will never have great leaders as long as we mistake education for intelligence, ambition for ability, and lack of transgression for integrity!
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Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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"Ambition should be made of 'STERNER' stuff" - Julius Caesar
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"Ambition can creep as well as soar." -- Burke
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It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It
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Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitutio
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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition
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The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, litera
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"Superior ability breeds superior ambition." - Spock
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