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• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

  John Webster

  Fall, Cutting, Dust

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press

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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.

  William Osler

  Motivational, Spiritual, Work

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.117, Ravenio Books

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• The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

  Theophrastus

  Men, Dinner, Next

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• We grow small trying to be great.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Inspirational, Funny, Reality

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• A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Men, Ambitious

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Desire, Ends

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.112

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• The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

  Peter McWilliams

  Comfort, Excuse, Aspiration

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

  Steven Erikson

  Dirty, Compromise, Throat

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.17, Random House

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• The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Business, People

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Nature, Kindness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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• Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

  Riccardo Muti

  Commitment, Simplicity, Spirit

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• The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

  Georg Solti

  Musical, Awakened, This Day

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• Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Sloth, Suffering

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, chapter III: Of Mixed Princedoms, 1513.

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• I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

  Frank Sinatra

  Thinking, Life Is, Knows

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

  Robert Breault

  Artist, Men, Length

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• As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Study, Kind

  Jackson Pollock (2011). “American Letters: 1927-1947”, p.16, Polity

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• He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

  Laozi

  Being Strong, Perseverance, Stay Strong

  Laozi (1959). “Tao Tê Ching: A New Translation”

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  If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

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• The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Believe In Yourself

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  Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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, People

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 27, 2013

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• Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Division, Empires

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.40

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• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Hands, Treasure, Favors

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

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