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Ambition

«A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.»
«Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.»
«Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.»
Author: Madonna (Actress, Singer) | About: Ambition, Life, Success | Keywords: one year, sheep, tiger
«Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.»
«Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand»
Author: William Feather | About: Ambition | Keywords: at hand, The Job
«Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Ambition
«Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.»
«A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.»
«He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.»
«A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him»

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