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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
G. K. Chesterton
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
David Hume
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.
Mark Twain
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Alexander Pope
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of envy can lead to emulation and ambition and have positive consequences.
Christopher Hitchens
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Robert Southey
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It gets to be part of your everyday routine. I expect to be there on Sunday. I expect to be there at practice. I think back to when I first started school in the first grade and how long it seemed to take to go from first through 12th.You figure in ninth grade you're never going to get out of high school, and you couldn't wait. Here I am in my 14th year and going on 13 for not missing basically a day of schoolcommenting on his consecutive-game streak (211 at the time of this article)
Brett Favre, article by John McC
The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
Robert L. Schwartz
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 never comes to an end.
Yoshida Kenko
Nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
Robert Browning
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
