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"I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." – Thomas Carlyle

« I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. » – Thomas Carlyle

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

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

"Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all." – Bob Marley

« Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all. » – Bob Marley

"All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms." – Harrison Ford

« All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms. » – Harrison Ford

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage  »coaches » ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory." – Herbert Kaufman

« Failure is only postponed success as long as courage  »coaches » ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. » – Herbert Kaufman

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." – Theodore Roosevelt 2

« It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who ...

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books" – Friedrich Nietzsche

« It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books » – Friedrich Nietzsche

"The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves." – Robert Burton

« The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. » – Robert Burton

"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive." – Pearl Bailey

« A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. » – Pearl Bailey

"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals." – Buddha

« Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. » – Buddha