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We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
Anon.
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Children, you must remember something. 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, "Talking to Myself" (1971)
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Les Brown
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Burton
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad, A Personal Record, 1912
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali
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What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.
Joseph Morrell Dodge
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
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If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it.
Louis Untermeyer, Prayer (last verse)
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