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«To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| Keywords:
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«A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.»
Author: Pearl Bailey
(Entertainer)
| About:
Ambition,
Love
| Keywords:
ambition, blessings, ever so, with ambition
«Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.»
«Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.»
«Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.»
«Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Friendship
| Keywords:
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«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 principals which direct them.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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«Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambition, For each, for each one, in progress, kingdom, One of Us, progress, progressed, progresses, progressing, progress to, rule, the true, with ambition
«Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.»
«Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which, if not fed, expires, And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires»
Author: William Congreve
| Keywords:
consuming, expires, feeding, fires, sickly, wastes, with ambition
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