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To be
ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of
our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
-- Sir Philip Sidney
1554-1586, British Author,
Courtier
Every child
has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by
negative suggestions -- you can't do this; you can't do
that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by
year, he experiences the ''realities'' of life, and his
ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children
die by the time they reach their adulthood.
-- Shall Sinha
Ambition if it
feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
-- Susan Sontag
1933-, American Essayist
Ambition is an
idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to
extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
-- Robert Southey
1774-1843, British Author
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There are
glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word,
that raises us above ourselves.
-- Arthur P. Stanley
Ambition often
puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is
performed in the same position with creeping.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
If you wish to
reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
-- Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Where there
are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said
to have fallen short of her purposes.
-- Sir Henry Taylor
1800-1886, British Author
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