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Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

Jerome K. Jerome

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ben Jonson

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.

Jean de La Bruyere

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: the rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

Walter Savage Landor

We often pass from love to ambition, but we hardly ever return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

Dorothy Parker

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.

Cesare Pavese

The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.

William Penn

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Pindar

He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.

Publilius Syrus

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

- Marilyn Monroe

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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all.

- Carlos Castaneda

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

- Euripides

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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

- Paulo Coelho

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