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• A man should know about himself two or three things: whether he is a coward; whether he is an honest man or given to lies; whether he is an ambitious man. One should define oneself first of all in those terms, and only then in terms of culture, race, creed.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Lying, Men, Race

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

  Laurence Shames

  Writing, Ideas, Stories

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

  Al Kooper

  Opportunity, Player, Records

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Responsibility, Guarantees That, Luck

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt (1974). “The private experience, Elliott Erwitt”

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• I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

  Caroline Lucas

  Real, Party, Thinking

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• The difference lies in the intention behind wanting money. Your reasons for why you want to create more money is typically why you're ambitious to get it. You're either genuinely ambitious or selfishly hungry.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Lying, Differences, Want

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• Do all the other things, the ambitious things - travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.

  George Saunders

  Graduation, Falling In Love, Kindness

  George Saunders' address to graduates at Syracuse University in New York, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

  Robert Solow

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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• So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Long

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• You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing.

  Sydney Lea

  Crazy, Writing, Odds

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• OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hope, Pride, Envy

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.151, 谷月社

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• Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

  Russell Conwell

  Money, Ought

  Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925

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• Back when I was younger,
  Very ambitious, but often blinded by my hunger.
  Some say I dream too big,
  And my dream gon' take me under.

  Freddie Gibbs

  Dream, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: National Anthem, 2010

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• The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

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• Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

  Stephen Spender

  Ambition, Vanity, World

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• It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

  Lucian Freud

  Morning, Giving Up, Paint

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• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Heart, Roots, Forever

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• Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Hate, Safety, Succeed

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• But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

  Mary Stewart

  Power, Men, Threat

  Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”

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• [Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

  Max Delbruck

  Children, Science, Fields

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• No man's pie is freed
  From his ambitious finger.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Men, Pie

  William Shakespeare (1808). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.202

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• Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

  Harvey Mackay

  Moving On, Morning, Giving

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• What great changes have not been ambitious?

  Melinda Gates

  Change, Ambition, Greatness

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• If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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