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We
grow small trying to be great.
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Beware of ambition!
It's one of the true double-edged swords. . . . depending
upon how we define it, it may be one of our great motivators that
helps us to
grow and learn and become who we're meant to be, or one of our great
destroyers
that holds us down and turns us into something we never imagined, in
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There is another more subtle way in which the
innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the
desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are
striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to
be-- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors--
but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become
something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but
self-glorification and self-expansion.
Tony deMello
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The
very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William
Shakespeare
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To
be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection
of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but
to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil
pageantry,
is as vain and little as the things are which we court.
Philip
Sidney
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It
is the constant fault and inseparable evil
quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Seneca
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Ambition
is so powerful a passion in the human breast,
that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Niccolò
Machiavelli
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Noble
people compare and estimate themselves by an idea
which is higher than themselves; and a mean person,
by one lower than him- or herself. The one produces aspiration;
the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar person
aspires.
Henry
Ward Beecher |
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but
grows
more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway |
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All
ambitions are lawful except those which
climb upward on the miseries or credulities of humankind.
Joseph
Conrad |
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of failure.
Oscar Wilde |
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Most people would succeed
in small things if
they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Ambition is like
hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
Henry Wheeler Shaw |
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reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is produced
in the world.
William Cobbett |
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What is ambition but
desire of greatness?
And what is greatness but extent of power?
Sir Thomas Higgons |
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Like
dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain,
ambitious people still climb and climb, with great labor,
and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton |
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It
is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the
truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in
their
mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their
own
interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good
will.
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