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“Cecil: A cup of love is greater than a pitcher full of ambition.”
“Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?”
“Talents too many, not enough of any.”
“You dont come to live here [New York City] unless the delusion of a reality shaped around your own desires isnt a strong aspect of your personality. 'A reality shaped around your own desires' ther...”
“Self-reliance and self-learning are your greatest assets.”
“No ambition which feeds on blood can be a worthy one”
“Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.”
“Ambition is not everything.""No. Not everything, but it's something. Something important, if you ask me.”
“In fact, ambitious tension actually limits our ability to succeed because it keeps us in a state of contraction emotionally and physically. It seems to give us energy but doesn't really. Like the w...”
“. . . I should wish you to think more deeply, to look further, and aim higher than you do.”
“If I keep pushing myself, Ill finally be somebody. Ill finally matter. Ill finally arrive. Nonsense. You wont be satisfied. The only thing worse than failing to realize any of your dreams, is seein...”
“Give your ambition a name.”
“Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.”
“A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.”
“If you can't get everyone on your side, make sure they're right behind you.”
“Nippers was a whiskered, sallow, and, upon the whole, rather piratical-looking young man of about five and twenty. I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers ambition and indigestion.”
“Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well ...”
“Have you ever had an experience where, had things turned out just a little bit differently, your entire life would have been transformed?Like a Supreme Court clerkship, a Rhodes Scholarship gets me...”
“My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exi...”
“There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.”
