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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. (Quote by - Anatole France)

My ambition is to be happy. (Quote by - Penelope Cruz)

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)

Ambition has no rest! (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton)

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. (Quote by - American Proverb)

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. (Quote by - John Webster)

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being (Quote by - John Lubbock)

It's very frustrating. The lads showed a lot of ambition in the first half, they went out to sustain it in the second but couldn't build on it. (Quote by - Andy Robinson)

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. (Quote by - Seneca)

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special. (Quote by - Sugar Ray Leonard)

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition. (Quote by - Terry Josephson)

Ambition aspires to descend (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep. (Quote by - Madonna)

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