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ambition-Ambition is an idol, on

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme - to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
- Shakti Gawain

ambition-Do not wish to be

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
- St. Francis de Sales

ambition-He who sacrifices his conscience

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
- Chinese proverb

ambition-Once you say you're going

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
- John F. Kennedy

ambition-I have a much greater

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
- William Hazlitt

ambition-All rising to great places

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
- Francis Bacon

ambition-Basically you have to suppress

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
- Bob Dylan

ambition-Nothing arouses ambition so much

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet - clang of another's fame.
- Balthasar Gracian

ambition-The significance of a man

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
- Kahlil Gibran

ambition-It is my ambition to

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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