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• What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

  Robert Browning

  Work, Comfort

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

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• Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Song, Inspiration, Hands

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• Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

  Oscar Wilde

  Progress, Kingdoms, Should

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• The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

  Nicky Romero

  Games, Goal, Focus

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• If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

  Shantanu Narayen

  Entrepreneur, Ambitious, Want

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

  Daniel Burnham

  Motivational, Hope, Work

  "Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities" by Charles Moore, Vol. 2, (p. 147), 1921.

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• I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success.

  Sarah Emma Edmonds

  Success, Romantic, Adventure

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• A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

  Deena Kastor

  Goal, Self Motivation, Growth

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• Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

  Robert Greene

  Patience, Fall, Haste

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• I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

  James Boswell

  Vanity, Manners, Decorum

  James Boswell (2001). “Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786”, Mercat Press Books

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• Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

  Shakti Gawain

  Idols, Wings, Mind

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• Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

  Rajneesh

  Desire, Bondage

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• Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

  Robert Browning

  Men, Doe, My Ambition

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• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

  Joseph Conrad

  Feet, Literature, Misery

  Some Reminiscences (1912; in USA entitled "A Personal Record") p. 19

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• A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

  Mark Shuttleworth

  Dream, Goal, Entrepreneur

  "Mark Shuttleworth Answers At Length". Slashdot interview, interviews.slashdot.org. April 4, 2005.

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• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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• I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

  Eva Gabor

  Stay Strong, Smart, Should Have

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• A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

  Pearl Bailey

  Love, Men, Blessing

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Life And Love, Optimistic

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• An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

  Michael Korda

  Hypocrisy, Pounds

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• There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Positive, Political, World

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

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• We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

  Freeman Dyson

  Goal, Ambitious, Needs

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.280, Pantheon

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• All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Greatness, Risk

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

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• I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Children, Future

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