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"“Be ambitious towards your own personal enhancement."" »Steve Maraboli
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"Unless you are ambitious, you do not make progress." »Tony Blair, BBC news website
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"The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune." »Jean De La Bruyere
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"God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project." »Anonymous
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"For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I thy call upon you all to acknowledge that a lie may take care of our present, but it will not survive an ambitious future" »The Omani Shed
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"If a man becomes too ambitious, considering material possessions,yet with a little moral elevation and understanding,he is more likely to become malicious." »lot chakonza
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"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric." »Maya Angelou
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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place." »Charles Baudelaire
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"He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away." »The Talmud
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"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top." »Robert Burton
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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 no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself." »Robert Merton Solow
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"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant." »Margaret Fuller
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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute." »William Hazlitt
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"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery." »Charles Krauthammer
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"He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man." »William Shakespeare
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