Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
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What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven.
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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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The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability
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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego
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Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition
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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
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Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand
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Ambition and fleas both jump high
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Ambition never comes to an end.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind
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Ambition is not a vice of little people
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