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“After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any su...”
“Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!”
“Like overzealous religious converts, climbers originally from the lower rungs of society tend to go overboard when they ape the upper class.”
“Today's politicians are like policemen on traffic duty. They are just dealing with traffic right in front of them. Yet they want to be the Superintendent based on that alone. The politicians and th...”
“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.”
“Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled...”
“If you are not working towards something, your life will end with nothing.”
“For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.”
“But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.”
“Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.”
“Everyone black as well as white thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.”
“The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.”
“Ambition is the bridge between reality and living a dream.”
“At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.”
“Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.”
“In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition.”
“The finest of athletes have, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All these, are totally compatible with p...”
“The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.”
“There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.”
“Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.”
