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“The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.”

“It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.”

Giving May Beautiful Grief Despair Ambition Yield Veils

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.”

Hands Beautiful Girl Common Too Much Ambition Attractive Beautiful Things

Author:Wale

“When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.”

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Author:Rita Zahara

“Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.”

Thinking Looks Beautiful Faces Ambition Crowns

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?”

Mind Beautiful Information Ambition Experiments Psychological Experts Suggestions Delightful

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.”

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Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.”

“Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.”

May Sometimes Beautiful Ambition Grandchildren

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.”

Beautiful Ambition Making Money Encounters My Ambition

Author:Juliette Binoche