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When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Cullen Hightower

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

Arturo Sandoval

Reality, Discipline, Demand

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If my life is motivated by my ambition to leave a legacy, what I'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition. But if my life is motivated by the power of the Spirit in me, if I live with the awareness of the indwelling Christ, if I allow His presence to guide my actions, to guide my motives, those sort of things. That's the only time I think we really leave a great legacy.

Rich Mullins

Thinking, Legacy, Spirit

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You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.

Gurbaksh Chahal

Moving On, Moving Forward, Entrepreneur

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There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

Christian Wiman

Home, Anxiety, Feelings

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Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct to see life in a comic light becomes irresistible, and ambition falls before it

William V. Shannon

Fall, Light, Accomplishment

William V. Shannon (1989). “The American Irish: A Political and Social Portrait”, p.24, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future.

Daisaku Ikeda

Powerful, Hopeful, Desire

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The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

Edwin Louis Cole

Names, Soul, Lust

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Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

Ben Horowitz

Mistake, Communication, Organization

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My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.

Henry David Thoreau

Faith, Views, Facts

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.357, Penguin

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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Goal, Taste

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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A. C. Benson

Work, Men, Hiking

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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, Men

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

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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Wilson Mizner

Men, People, Slave

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel de Montaigne

Inspirational, People, Vices

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1269, Delphi Classics

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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

David Hume

Passion, Principles, Literature

David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Character, Passion, Life Ambition

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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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Ambition has no rest.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 20-21, Richelieu (1839), Act III, scene 1, 1922.

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If America gave anybody anything it is ambition. Bad things would come out of it because some guys are in a hurry, but that doesn't mean they're evil or anything, it just means they fall into bad grace somehow.

Jack Kirby

Fall, Mean, America

Source: www.tcj.com

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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Ilie Nastase

Jobs, Good Job, Plans

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

Love, Motivational, Cute

William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.114, Pearson Education

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Crazy, Book, Reading

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It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

Henry David Thoreau

Art, World, Mankind

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1771, Delphi Classics

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It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

Aristotle

People, Wish, Seems

Aristotle (1987). “The Nicomachean Ethics”

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