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  • That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.

  • If I feel love, I just want to feel more love. And if I feel a bit of peace, I want to feel more peace. But I don't really have any great ambitions. I feel very happy. I've got a lot of good friends. I just want it to be better and more of it, really.

  • I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

    Ambition   Men   Lips  
    Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  • If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

    John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92
  • Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

  • I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

  • To be the best in your field is a great ambition, and requires discipline and a huge amount of effort. The athletes who possess this drive are the ones I am attracted to.

    Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. October 5, 2016.
  • Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

    Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence [contin.] 1795-1804; 1777; 1791. Letters of H. G. 1789. Address to public creditors. 1790. Vindication of funding system. 1791”, p.423
  • Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

    Ambition   Idols   Wings  
  • I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  • I think you're never going to get somewhere ambitious if you don't start out with great ambitions. What I would say is: we got a start. That to me is a very significant thing. Here we were, a historic meeting to talk about climate change.

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  • Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.

  • Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

    Real   Ambition   Men  
    Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.550
  • The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.

    Sweet   Flower   Ambition  
    John Burroughs (2008). “Pepacton”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC
  • Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

  • They [i.e. ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.

    Dog   Business   Ambition  
    "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.
  • By Gryffindor, the bravest were Prized far beyond the rest; For Ravenclaw, the cleverest Would always be the best; For Hufflepuff, hard workers were Most worthy of admission; And power-hungry Slytherin Loved those of great ambition.

  • Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.

    "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde". Book by Peter Ackroyd, 1983.
  • One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

  • Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

    James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382
  • Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America
  • In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.

    "William Gass, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Thomas LeClair, www.theparisreview.org. Summer 1977.
  • The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

    Love   Ambition   Dating  
  • Mind is nothing but dreams and dreams - dreams of the past, dreams of the future, dreams of how things should be, dreams of great ambitions, achievements. Dreams and desires, that is the stuff mind is made of. But it surrounds you like a China Wall. And because of it the fish remains unaware of the ocean.

    Dream   Wall   Ocean  
  • It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!

    Dream   Ambition   Long  
  • Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

    Funny   Hilarious   Girly  
    "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.
  • We grow small trying to be great.

  • Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

    Work   Ocean   Ambition  
    Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press
  • Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

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