#ambition

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. ↗

— John Webster

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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

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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. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free. ↗

— Venus Williams

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I think we still believe that ambition is for boys. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung. ↗

— Toby Young

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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to ambition and wit. ↗

— Ashley Greene

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