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.
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Be not content with the commonplace in character any more than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.
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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.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
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George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.
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Commenting on his consecutive game streak (211 at the time of this article)
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
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He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man?. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that
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Keep away from 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.
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Such joy ambition finds.
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An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
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I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. (running for mayor of Bucharest, Romania)
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Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels: how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
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I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other.
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I used to envy kids who had an old fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern type Grandpa myself and really start living.
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Here at lastWe shall be freethe Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us henceHere we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in HellBetter to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
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