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• I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

  Forrest Gander

  Acceptance, Enthusiasm, Worship

  Forrest Gander (2001). “Torn Awake”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Men, People, Simplicity

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• In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

  Irene Gut Opdyke

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Romance

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• Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

  Richard Koch

  Intelligent, Progress, Laziness

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• I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.

  Mike Tice

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• Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.

  John George Nicolay

  Sex, Men, Village

  John George Nicolay (2008). “A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln: Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: a History: Easyread Large Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

  Anthony de Mello

  Greed, Life Is, Illusion

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.78, Image

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• Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
  ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing,
  great things are possible to you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Soul, Longing, Fine

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• I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

  Mariah Carey

  Letting Go, Dream, Can't Let Go

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• To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Thinking, Wish, World

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.155, Random House

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

  Werner Herzog

  Ego, Vision, Firsts

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• Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Intuition, Forget, Blind

  Song: Cowboy In The Jungle, Album: Son of a Son of a Sailor, 1978

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• A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

  Leah Stewart

  People, Midwest, Kind

  Leah Stewart (2013). “The History of Us: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Dream, Motivation, Distance

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• Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

  Jay Samit

  Illusion, Security

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

  Jay Samit

  Careers, Driven, Circumstances

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2015

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• Soul mates are brought together for a reason. All their lives they have been preparing for each other. When they look back at their lives they will see a new purpose to actions they have taken. Their lives take on a sense of oneness equalled by no other. Oneness of purpose, ambition, and love which can be a beacon to others along their spiritual paths.

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Taken, Oneness

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• Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Thinking, People, Imagination

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• I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

  Richard Linklater

  Everyday, Finding Yourself, Where You Live

  ""You can't hold back the human spirit"". Interview with David Walsh, www.wsws.org. March 27, 1998.

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• Ambition is a tunnel that you run through that doesn't end.

  Curtis Jackson

  Running, Tunnels, Ends

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• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Attitude, Self, Tunes

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck

  Dream, Party, Future

  Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck (2012). “Germany's Third Empire”, p.82, Arktos

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, India, Atlas

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• Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

  Richard Branson

  People, Giving, Challenges

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