"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement."

Ambition, Cause, Earth, Improvement

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"It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement."

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"If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Simple dreams are the hardest to come true."

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"My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living."

Graham Norton, Irish Celebrity

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"Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing."

Shakti Gawain, American Author

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"His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web."

John McCarthy, American Politician

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"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."

Terry Josephson, American Restaurateur

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"Through the years our business has been killing."

Erich Maria Remarque, German Writer

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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"

Robert Browning, English Poet

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