Ambition
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long
Our aspirations are our possibilities
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position
Ambition is not a vice of little people
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
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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