Lewis Carroll Quotes, Education Quotes, Ambition Quotes

Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

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As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential.

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You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

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The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

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To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

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The mystical techniques for achieving immortality are revealed only to those who have dissolved all ties to the gross worldly realm of duality, conflict, and dogma. As long as your shallow worldly ambitions exist, the door will not open.

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Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

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The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

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Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

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To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

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My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.

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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

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If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

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I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

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