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Greatly begin.
Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not
failure, but low aim is crime.
-- James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet,
Critic, Editor
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.
-- Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman,
Banker, Naturalist
Ambition is so
powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we
reach we are never satisfied.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
1469-1527, Italian Author,
Statesman
Nature that
framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for
regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
-- Christopher Marlowe
1564-1593, British Dramatist,
Poet
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If you have a
great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the
direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one,
but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.
-- Mildred Mcafee
Ambition is a
poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
-- Charlie McCarthy
If men cease
to believe that they will one day become gods then they will
surely become worms.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
Ambition is
not a vice of little people.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French
Philosopher, Essayist
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