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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. -- Thomas Carlyle
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world. -- Theodore Zeldin
Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
The great ambition of women is to inspire love. -- Moliere
Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward. -- Peter Ackroyd
That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's. -- Kiera Cass
Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity. -- Norm MacDonald
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. -- Luc de Clapiers
It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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. -- Adam Smith
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. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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 -- Nicole Krauss
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. -- J. K. Rowling
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. -- Michael Birch
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
If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. -- Mildred H. McAfee
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. -- John Burroughs
The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build-the thing customers want and will pay for-as quickly as possible. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time. -- Eric Ries
Anyone with great ambition, great vision, and great passion can be a great person. -- Debasish Mridha
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. -- Giorgio Armani
Housewife: a position requiring great ambition to fill. Must have the determination to scrub mold, the good taste to distribute a checking account, and the good will to repeat this at a maid service or department store after her husband starts coming home drunk. -- Bauvard
Modern wife: A position thought to require great ambition to fill. After initially showing some skill at a maid service or department store, the husband takes her home to find that she has risen too high in the world to generalize that skill, which drives him to drink. -- Bauvard
We grow small trying to be great. -- E. Stanley Jones
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. -- Mason Cooley
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant... -- Alexander Hamilton
As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. -- Lynn Davies
My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family. -- Rafe Spall
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. -- Fergus Henderson
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great. -- Johnny Depp
Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme. -- Emile Hirsch
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother. -- Charlotte Rampling
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. -- Shakti Gawain
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated. -- Maud Adams
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day. -- Rosa Bonheur
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. -- Benjamin Disraeli
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed. -- Abraham Lincoln
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. -- Rajneesh
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness. -- John Webster
The results are in great need greater ambition. -- Heraclitus
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! -- Orison Swett Marden
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition. -- Mark Steyn
Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! -- John Adams
My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition. -- Ben Horowitz
Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change. -- Brendon Burchard
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. -- Horace Greeley
Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition. -- Marquis de Sade
Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring...If you are willing, great things are possible to you. -- Grenville Kleiser
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry. -- Louis Kronenberger
News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. -- Brian Eno
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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