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When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. (Quote by - Epicurus)

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. (Quote by - James R. Cook)

Here may we reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (Quote by - John Milton)

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress. (Quote by - Anjelica Huston)

I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure. (Quote by - George W. Bush)

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!. (Quote by - Rachel Field)

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty (Quote by - Seneca)

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. (Quote by - Herbert Kaufman)

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation. (Quote by - Montaigne)

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. (Quote by - Steven Brust)

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. (Quote by - Jack Handy)

Time is the only critic without ambition. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)

When I was asked to join this club and I saw the quality and ambitions of the manager it was an easy choice for me to make. (Quote by - Alberto Ricardo Carvalho)

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. (Quote by - John Keats)

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web. (Quote by - John McCarthy)

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. (Quote by - F. Hawes)

On her childhood ambitions: I wanted to own a chain of hotels. Another crazy idea was to be Governor of California. (Quote by - Caprice)

Achievement results from work realizing ambition. (Quote by - Adam Ant)

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