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“Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.”

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Author:Rafe Spall

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134”

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Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you will threaten the man.' Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices, always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now, marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support, but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don't teach boys the same?”

“The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.”

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Book:Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

“Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”

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Author:Pierre Corneille

“We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.”

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Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man”

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Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world. To achieve this, they were perfectly willing to feed the ambitions of the power-hungry political conspirators who were committed to the overthrow of all existing governments and the establishment of a central worldwide dictatorship.”