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• Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, People, Want

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• I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

  Plato

  Son, Men, Being The Best

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• This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

  James Thurber

  Feet, Slave, Posture

  James Thurber (1978). “Further fables for our time”, Simon & Schuster

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• Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

  Richard Steele

  Pride, Vanity, People

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• My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

  Hugh Grant

  Grandmother, Wind, Honest

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• Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

  Adam Smith

  Common, Beautiful Mind, Economics

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• You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.

  Andy Grove

  Hard Work, Needs, Elbows

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• The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Law, Ideas, Business Success

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• The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

  Ameen Rihani

  Heart, Mean, Soul

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.179, Syracuse University Press

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• Ambition is something you turn into a plan to create an online personality, a brand, a network.

  Cris Mazza

  Personality, Online, Turns

  "My discoveries weren’t any more extensive or alarming than most people’s. I just chose to look". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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• If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

  Julius Caesar

  Pride, Too Much, Failing

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• You cannot teach ambition.

  Amy Chan

  Teach

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• A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

  Alain de Botton

  Simple, Destiny, Problem

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• The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Rotten, Envious

  John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

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• Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Passion, Pride, Self

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• Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Race, Bismarck, Britain

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Together, Credit

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• Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Philosophy, Reason, Damp

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• Human ambitions are like Japanese carp; they grow proportional to the size of their environment. Our achievements grow according to the size of our dreams and the degree to which we are in touch with our mission.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Dream, Achievement, Degrees

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.39, Crown Business

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• Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Rocks, Eagles, Reptiles

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• Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

  John Adams

  Office, Revolution, Looks

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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.

  James R Cook

  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• When ambition ends, happiness begins.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambitious, Ends, Loose Ends

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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, Power, Men

  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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