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First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Oh that I were seated
as high as my ambition,
I'd place my naked foot on
the necks of monarchs.
Where there are large powers
with little ambition... nature may be said to
have fallen short of her purposes.
Ambition often puts men upon
doing the meanest offices; so
climbing is performed in the
same position with creeping.
Ambition is an idol, on whose
wings great minds are carried
only to extreme; to be sublimely
great or to be nothing.
To be ambitious of true honor,
of the true glory and perfection
of our natures, is the very principle
and incentive of virtue.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood,
and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
I had no ambition to make a fortune.
Mere money-making has never been
my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Live neither in the past nor in
the future, but let each day's work
absorb your entire energies, and
satisfy your widest ambition.
Keep away from 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.