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“My one ambition is to play a hero.”

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Author:Sessue Hayakawa

“It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.”

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Book:A Preface to Morals

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.”

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Author:Young Jeezy

“When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.”

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Author:Martha Stewart

“Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.”

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Author:Marcus Buckingham