Ambition

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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position
Ambition is not a vice of little people
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.

Rabbi Ben Ezra
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it:
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
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