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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Humble, Humility, Envious

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• Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?

  Marsilio Ficino

  Success, Men, Feet

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• I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Insomnia, Succeed

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• It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Time, Learning, Men

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Little Women”, p.254, Louisa May Alcott

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• A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

  Elizabeth I

  Strength, Reality, Hands

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• You can't be both happy and ambitious.

  J.A. Konrath

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• It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

  Hillary Clinton

  Goal, Remember, Strive

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Ambition, Disease

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Tyrants, World Government

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Able, Path

  Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

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• However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

  George Washington

  Party, Men, People

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

  Will Rogers

  Mother, Wisdom, Elephants

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.25, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, Remember

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• Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men,
  Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

  Horace

  Boys, Men, Anxiety

  Horace (1931). “The Complete Works of Horace”

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• One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Names, Honor

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• You exist! Be ambitious!

  Will Evans

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• I was very ambitious at a young age. When I was six, I would tell everybody that I wanted to be an authoress.

  Mary Harron

  Age, Six, Young

  Interview with Anisse Gross, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Ambition, Giving

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• The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ambition, Men, Evil

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

  Doug Casey

  Integrity, Patriotic, Government

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• The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance

  Akhenaton

  Distance, Joy, Mind

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• To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

  Josephine Hart

  Ambition, Winning, Games

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Taken, Thinking

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 18, 2004.

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