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“Having a Great Ambition is also a Meditation. When our efforts are focussed sincerely, even during sleep, our brains will work on it, in the form of Dreams.”
“you think I am going to give up now? I'm so close.”
“Honor, More charged, 'is the religion of tragedy.' Emotions such as love, hate, ambition, pride, and jealousy, 'form a dazzling system of worldly morality,' which contradicts 'the spirit of that re...”
“It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her ...”
“It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is ...”
“Be honest with yourself; set the alarm for the time the Real You will get up, not the Ambitious You, because the Ambitious You doesn't really exist.”
“I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasnt sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.”
“Be joyful and expect a great future.”
“The best is the enemy of good.”
“Civic duty? Perhaps it would be a little naive to try to coerce me into voting. I assure you my basic standards of healthy living are very different from yours, which is the reason I do not vote. Y...”
“Ambition strives. At first for goals, until it reaches them. Then for more, because it's insatiable.”
“Too often we give up due to temporal challenge.”
“Clear skin, a manicure, a couple dead zombies, and then fame!”
“College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.”
“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me...”
“Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.”
“A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.”
“I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new l...”
“Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward”
“I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.”
