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At the age of
six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.
And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
-- Salvador Dali
1904-1989, Spanish Painter
Intelligence
without ambition is a bird without wings.
-- C. Archie Danielson
Ambition is
like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
-- Sir John Denham
1615-1668, British Poet,
Dramatist
It seems to me
we can never give up longing and wishing while we are
thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be
beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
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Without
ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes
nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win
it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man
who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods
there may be a million and then some, but principles are
few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select
his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring
principles, is sure to have trouble.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Ambition is
the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
-- Thomas Dunn English
1819-1902, American
Physician, Lawyer
Ambition has
its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune
to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and
all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to
inflame its insatiable desires.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
The ambitious
are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most
pleasure from flattery.
-- Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish
Author, Poet, Playwright
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