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"Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Ambition, Power, Inspirational, Future, Truth

"Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Ambition, Truth, Power, Future, Life

"Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Ambition, Inspirational, Future, Power, Today

"I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Ambition, Truth, Power, Life

"A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Ambition, Fear, Change, Tradition

"Win the dreams. Period."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Ambition, Dream, Winning, Success, Goal

"All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ambition, Greatness, Desire, Need, Value

"To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth - that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Ambition, Wealth, Power, Influence, Mankind

"Life is full of limitless opportunities. You ought to seek them."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ambition, Limitless, Seek, Opportunity, Life

"Ambition can form an impenetrable barrier for those who fail to acknowledge what they already are."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Ambition, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

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"I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody."

Creativity

"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

Language

"Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts."

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"It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile."

People

"That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer."

Literature

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Heart

"The problems of our country are very fast to recognize."

Nation

"I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging."

Ambition