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“I know what other people think about me,” Rusty told her. “ ‘That Rusty,’ they say. ‘Charming and handsome,’ they say first, of course—they’re not blind. Then they add, ‘All the ambition and drive ...”
“I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.”
“The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don't really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love musi...”
“That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.”
“Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.”
“We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.”
“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...”
“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.”
“There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been d...”
“Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.”
“And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty a...”
“When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
“When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.”
“If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.”
“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!”
