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“This is a woman whose belly is filled with pride. She has been eating nothing but her own ambition for nearly thirty years.”
“The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.”
“Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.”
“I don't have the type of ambition that will make me do anything at any cost to get what I want. I don't want to be beholden to people. I don't want to open a shop with your money because I don't wa...”
“The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddling our way toward frugality, simplicity, liberty, community, until some kind of sane and rational ...”
“It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.”
“Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of better...”
“It is the age of ambition that proves the mettle of men”
“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.”
“To want something desperately, to be tested, to feel that life will be impossible if the object of one's desires is not achieved, is always dangerous for the soul. Some people attempt to climb Ever...”
“On some days it felt like we owned the Earth, and the only place left to expand to was the next planet down the line.”
“Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.”
“Talent helps, but it won't take you as far as ambition.”
“Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get...”
“The last goose in the column is flying just as high.”
“If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in fail...”
“The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.”
“Once you have some yes's in your life, the no's are not that bad.”
“Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.”
“Ambition is a stairway that never ends.”
