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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.
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Judith M. Bardwick
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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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Sir James M. Barrie
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
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Robert Browning
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
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Robert Browning
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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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Robert Browning
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
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Robert Browning
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Edmund Burke
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Robert Burton
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Lord Byron
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
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Lord Byron
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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.
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Herbert N. Casson
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Big results require big ambitions.
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James Champy
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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Marcus T. Cicero
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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.
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Charles Caleb Colton
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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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Joseph Conrad
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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
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James R. Cook
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