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We grow small trying to be great.

E. Stanley Jones

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Ben Jonson

A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.

Jean de La Bruyere

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Abraham Lincoln

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

William Penn

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

Walker Percy

Ambition destroys its possessor.

Hebrew Proverb

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Quintilian

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My interest is not in the capture of power, but in the control of power by the people.

- Jayaprakash Narayan

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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

- Lou Holtz

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

- Robert Frost

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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- Oscar Wilde

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Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

- Mary Richards

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