#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

#each #kingdom #know #more #our

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#failure #last #refuge

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

— Jeanette Winterson

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Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#life #lifestyle #life

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#been #choice #easy #i #impressed

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, , but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#learning #life #survival #winning #life

And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#endeavors #greed #humanity #ladder #learning

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#bullying #character #moral-courage #courage