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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. -
Sir Philip Sidney
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous] -
A W Tozer
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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. -
Sir Henry Taylor
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -
Henry Ward Beecher
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Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -
Mark Twain
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Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions -- you can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the ''realities'' of life, and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood. -
Shall Sinha
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. -
Horace Walpole
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. -
Seneca
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. -
Sir Walter Scott
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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will. -
Sallust
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. -
Kenny Rogers
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The person who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed; you must have a larger ambition. There is no mystery in business success. If you do each day's task successfully, and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about, and keep your head clear, you will come out all right. -
John D Rockefeller
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. -
John D Rockefeller
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. -
Susan Sontag
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
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