#ambition

I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

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It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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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. ↗