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It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

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Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

goals, ambition

Daniel H. Burnham

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men’s blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.

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This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!

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Winning isn’t everything but wanting to win is.

goals, ambition

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

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Robert Browning

Ah but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for?

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La Rochefoucauld

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

goals, ambition

Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

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St. Francis de Sales

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

goals, ambition