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“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Drift-Wood--Table-Talk
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“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes Source: Excelsior
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“The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.”
Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith") Quotes Source: Lucile (pt. I, canto II, st. 8)
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“He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested
business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have
undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes Source: History of England (Character of Charles II) (vol. I, ch. II)
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“Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 263)
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“Such joy ambition finds.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 92)
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“But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last
To basest things.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 168)
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“If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 426)
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“Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 157)
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“Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 74)
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“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
F. Hawes Quotes |
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“Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.”
Judith M. Bardwick Quotes |
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“What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.”
Robert Browning Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”
Herbert N. Casson Quotes |
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“Big results require big ambitions.”
James Champy Quotes |
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“The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.”
Marcus T. Cicero Quotes |
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“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes |
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“I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.”
James R. Cook Quotes |
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“I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.”
Laurel Cutler Quotes |
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”
Salvador Dali Quotes |
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“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
C. Archie Danielson Quotes |
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“Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.”
Sir John Denham Quotes |
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“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn English Quotes |
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“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
Timothy Leary Quotes |
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