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He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Ambition
Lao-Tzu

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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Horace

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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Angus Grossart

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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
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Henry Miller

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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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Publilius Syrus

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Ambition
C. Archie Danielson

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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Ambition
Seneca

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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
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Eric Hoffer

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
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Alexander Pope

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Horace

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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.
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Horace Walpole

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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Ambition
Lord Alfred Tennyson

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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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Oliver Goldsmith

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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Ambition
Marcus T. Cicero

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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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William Penn

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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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William Shakespeare

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
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Edgar Quinet

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We grow small trying to be great.
Ambition
Eli Stanley Jones

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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Ambition
Robert Browning

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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Ambition
Hungarian Proverb

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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Ambition
Kenneth Kaunda

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Where ambition ends happiness begins.
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