"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

Kaunda, Kenneth on ambition
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"Where ambition ends happiness begins."

Unknown, Source on ambition   

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Twain, Mark on ambition
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"Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]"

Tozer, A. W. on ambition
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"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."

Taylor, Sir Henry on ambition   

"It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will."

Sallust on ambition   

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

Rogers, Kenny on ambition
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"I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build."

Rockefeller, John D. on ambition   

"Hasty climbers have sudden falls."

Proverb, Italian on ambition
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"If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

Miller, Henry on ambition
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"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."

Lubbock, Sir John on ambition   

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on ambition
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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