"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."

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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."

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"Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Ambition, Competition, Power, Today, Truth

"I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this time; the thoughts of everybody; how do I deal with that obstacle? how do I get there? ; troubling questions for everybody! Releasing ourselves, plugging into the purpose, challenging the challenges, questioning the unquestionable, taking the chances; the asset and audacity of somebody. Everybody has a dream but, it is somebody who gets to the dream."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Ambition, Dream, Vision, Mission, Obstacle

"When you lower the definition of success to such a level that any person can reach it, you don't teach people to have big dreams; instead you inspirit mediocrity and nurture people's inadequacies."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Ambition, Dreams, Success, Mediocrity, Inspirational

"The ordinary build houses when they have bricks, the extraordinary build mansions when they have pebbles."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Ambition, Fortune, Man, Office

"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Ambition, Life, Work, Desire, Effort

"Why settle for a lesser vision? When you are destiny for greatness!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Ambition, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Ambition, Persistence, Fun, Dream, Drive

"Be a dreamer. Be a doer. Be a perseverer. Be a winner."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Ambition, Dreamer, Doer, Perseverer, Winner

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"All a poet can do today is warn."

Caution, Today

"A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season."

Growth, Spring, Trees

"The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter."

War, News, Service

"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."

War, Enthusiasm, Flying, Profession

"All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want."

Want,

"Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do."

People, Numbers, Old

"When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing."

Finance, Financial, Nothing

"I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's."

Life, First

"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"

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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."

Reading, Satisfaction, Thinking