Alan Lightman Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Suffering Quotes

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

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Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind

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Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

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If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

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

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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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

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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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I shall strike the stars with my uplifted head.

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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

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I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

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