#ambition

Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#anxiety #contemporary

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#infirmity #last #minds #noble

Those who seize the day become seriously rich. ↗

— Richard Koch

#creativity #motivation #productivity #motivational

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I have a few personal ambitions for the band. ↗

— John Deacon

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As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. ↗

— Johnny Depp

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The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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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

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