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Ambition Quotes
"What do you want for her?" "Dragon bones." The leader's eyes narrowed even as his pupils turned to vertical slits. The contrasting actions was jarring to see. "That's impossible." Rory lifted a shoulder, casual indifference. "Nothing's impossible. I want them, you want this female. Find me dragon bones, you get her."
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"She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved."
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"Don't let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams, lions have little in common with sheep."
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"I could not break records, so I decided to shatter them."
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"A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best."
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"Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz."She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?""Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters."
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"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."
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"Have you decided how great you want to be? It's really up to you. Greatness is a choice."
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"Great dreams do not come to pass greatly at a twinkle of an eye, but you may see them happening at a twinkle of an eye. The best dream which survive greatly in reality takes great roots first before it grows in reality to bear great fruits. Delay is not death! Carefully and patiently nurture your dreams and make them happen distinctively in reality."
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"You should always be challenging yourself to see how high you can elevate yourself above the masses."
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"Making your mark in the world is better than making trouble."
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"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us but never the good fortune to satisfy us."
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"Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others."
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"A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere."
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"A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success."
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"One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals."
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"The fate of your dream lies in your actions."
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"It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again."
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"The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort."
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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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"Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers."
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"Success is yours if you are willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth."
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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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"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."
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"There is no limit or borderline to achieving whatever you are set-out to achieve in life."
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"In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars."
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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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"In the morning envision victory, at night dream of it, but during the day fight for it."
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"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."
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"In order to have success, you have to concentrate on your goals."
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"Don't waste your life on small dreams. Give yourself permission to dream big."
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