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    Mae West
    “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
    ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
    tags: ambition, disobedience, empowerment, girls, goodness, naughty, promiscuity, risque, self-determination, wickedness, women
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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: ambition, failure, irony, optimism
    858 likes

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    “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
    ― Walter H. Cottingham
    tags: ambition, intelligence, misattributed-salvador-dali, paraphrased
    521 likes

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    Marcus Aurelius
    “A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
    tags: ambition
    341 likes

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    Steven Erikson
    “Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”
    ― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon
    tags: ambition, compromise
    299 likes

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    Sidney Sheldon
    “Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
    ― Sidney Sheldon, Bloodline
    tags: ambition, learn, life, power
    227 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “I have no spur
    To prick the sides of my intent, but only
    Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
    And falls on the other.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: ambition, macbeth, shakespeare
    124 likes

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    Voltaire
    “The best is the enemy of good.”
    ― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: ambition, best, desires, good, greed, insatiability
    191 likes

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  • #9
    “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
    ― Madonna
    tags: ambition, bitch, discrimination, gender-roles, life, misogyny, sexism, tough
    84 likes

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    Damien Echols
    “Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.”
    ― Damien Echols, Life After Death
    tags: ambition, curiosity, god, mysterious
    71 likes

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    Habeeb Akande
    “The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.”
    ― Habeeb Akande
    tags: ambition, desire, determination, goals, greed, inspirational, life, motivational, objective, success, work, work-ethic
    66 likes

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    Alan Lightman
    “If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”
    ― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
    tags: ambition, knowledge, tragedy
    196 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, ambition, brave, caring, devotion, victory
    140 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “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
    tags: ambition
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    Rachel Hawkins
    “And the next time I did school stuff in the middle of the night, I just did it in my closet with the door locked. Honestly, what is wrong with this country when striving for excellence means you need antidepressants?”
    ― Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle
    tags: ambition
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    John Burroughs
    “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.”
    ― John Burroughs
    tags: ambition, nature, time
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    “There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.”
    ― Joe Vigil
    tags: ambition, born-to-run, christopher-mcdougall, folly, greed, running, wealth, wisdom
    33 likes

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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
    tags: ambition, dedication, determination, dragons, dreams, fight, fight-for-your-dreams, goals, never-give-up, richelle, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich
    37 likes

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    David Whyte
    “No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.”
    ― David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
    tags: ambition, conceit, death, importance, self-importance, significance
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    Orson Scott Card
    “Humanity does not ask us 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, Ender’s Game
    tags: ambition, learning, life, survival, winning
    54 likes

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  • #21
    Aeschylus
    “His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.”
    ― Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes
    tags: ambition, resolutions
    50 likes

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    Bryant McGill
    “Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.”
    ― Bryant McGill
    tags: accomplishments, ambition, failure, simplicity, success
    22 likes

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    Alain de Botton
    “Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.”
    ― Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
    tags: ambition, anxiety
    71 likes

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    Ayn Rand
    “You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached.”
    ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
    tags: ambition, dagny-taggart, love
    13 likes

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    Joseph Conrad
    “And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
    tags: ambition, ambitious-minds, ambitious-people, driven, fall, fear, fire, grace, haunted, human-condition, humanity, idlesness, mankind, pride, self-hate, self-loathing, self-motivated, truth
    16 likes

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    Homer
    “…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift—She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief.”
    ― Homer, The Iliad
    tags: ambition, classics, greece, grief, ruin
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81692 likes

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  • #29
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71605 likes



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