Ambition
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance. The poorest mechanic, nay, the man who lives upon common alms, gets him his set of admirers, and delights in that superiority which he enjoys over those who are in some respects beneath him. This ambition, which is natural to the soul of man, might, methinks, receive a very happy turn; and, if it were rightly directed, contribute as much to a person's advantage, as it generally does to his uneasiness and disquiet
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long
Our aspirations are our possibilities
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