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“(...)"Take your time, because thereisnt a moment to spare,(...) Thats what Stein told me when I had to leave Menakfor the first time. It kind of means that wherever yourdestination is, now is the t...”
“Do your best, and your best will be growing better.”
“Ambition is the ignition of a car we call life.”
“Ambition is the driving engine behind every great success.”
“Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.”
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
“This time Elizabeth Ann didn't answer, because she herself didn't know what the matter was. But I do, and I'll tell you. The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school....”
“Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.”
“It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.”
“A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.”
“Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out w...”
“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another...”
“A mans worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”
“If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.”
“[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent ...”
“By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
“I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.”
“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”
