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Letter "A" » ambition
«To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire a human being»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| Keywords:
ambition, elevating, Good Hope, happier, highest, High Hopes, hope, however, human, human being, inspire, small, with ambition
«My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.»
«Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| About:
Age
| Keywords:
accumulations, ambition, ego, material, middle, middle age, period, possessions, shedding, shell, shells
«The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.»
«The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
ambition, harmony, required
«There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.»
«Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| Keywords:
absorb, ambition, each day, energies, entire, heedless, morrow, on the road, satisfy, throw, thrown-away, throw away, travelers, wildest
«Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.»
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambition, For each, for each one, in progress, kingdom, One of Us, progress, progressed, progresses, progressing, progress to, rule, the true, with ambition
«To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Happiness
| Keywords:
ambition, at home, The Ultimate, ultimate
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