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  Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  Salvador Dali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Literature, Spirit

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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Men

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• Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

  Timothy Leary

  Funny, Hilarious, Girly

  "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

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• Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Use, Merit, Despicable

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Ambition never comes to an end.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Ends

  "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.

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• Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Buddhist, Like Love

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• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Home, Results

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.431

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• He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.

  Laozi

  Toes, Walks, Stride

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.37, Chinese University Press

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• What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

  Oliver Herford

  Eggs, Fans, Electric

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• When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

  Seneca the Younger

  Progress, Limits, Natural

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• People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

  Diane Setterfield

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Men, Desire

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.550

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• Aim High, Drive hard.

  Donald Trump

  Aim High, Aim, Hard

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• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  Walter Scott

  Nature, Perfection, Honor

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• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Powerful, Passion

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• As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Long, Goal

  Overruled (1916) p. 72

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• If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

  Alan Lightman

  Suffering, World, Persons

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.33, Vintage

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• I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

  Neal Shusterman

  Inspiring, Failure, Optimistic

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Success, Fighting

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

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• Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Discovery, Tranquility, Innocent

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.275, Courier Corporation

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• If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

  Joyce Brothers

  Commitment, Energy, May

  "It's All About You: Live the Life You Crave". Book by Mary Goulet and Heather Reider, 2007.

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Errors, Tears

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