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Ambition Quotes
"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
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"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."
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"CA student is composition of a Compassionate, Cheerful, and Cool aspirant. I will be a Chartered Accountant."
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"Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage."
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"Professional success is only partial success."
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"A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss."
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"You cannot reach the stars feet on the ground."
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"Expect success. Desire success. Attract success. Realize success."
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"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
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"Stay with your passion but have a philosophy that is beyond your strength so that you can have a legacy, even a legacy that will outlast you."
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"One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals."
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"I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me."
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"The fate of your dream lies in your actions."
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"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."
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"To dream doesn't cost you much, so dream. To hope doesn't cost you much, so hope. To yearn doesn't cost you much, so yearn; but to succeed costs you everything, so persevere."
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"I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for."
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"Step up your game and success will step up to you."
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"If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them."
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"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."
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"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
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"In a democracy private citizens see a man of their own rank in life who becomes possessed of riches and power in a few years; this spectacle excites their surprise and envy, and they are led to inquire how the person who was yesterday very equal is today their ruler. To attribute his rise to his talents or his virtues is unpleasant; for it is tacitly to acknowledge that they are themselves less virtuous and less talented than he was."
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"We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!"
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"In the morning envision victory, at night dream of it, but during the day fight for it."
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"Always follow your dreams with confidence and conviction, don't fall for the trap of dream killers."
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"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."
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"Don't waste your life on small dreams. Give yourself permission to dream big."
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"Ambition is greed without makeup."
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"He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success."
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"We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives."
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"Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small."
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"I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated."
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"If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now."
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"Success is yours if you are willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth."
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