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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.
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Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
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Robert Jackson
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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