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“The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.”

Growth Wealth Results Effort Achievement Ambition England Strive Busy Circles France Vain Continents Multitudes Expansion Competence New England Toiling

Book:Pioneers of France in the New World

Source: Pioneers of France in the New World

“Every business is manmade. It is a result of individuals. It reflects the personalities and the business philosophy of the founders and those who have directed its affairs throughout its existence. If you want to have an understanding of any business, it is important to know the background of the people who started it and directed its past and the hopes and ambitions of those who are planning its future.”

People Ifs Knows Want Important Philosophy Past Individual Understanding Results Existence Personality Ambition Affair Planning Backgrounds Founders

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.”

Should Suffering Women Results Sacrifice Ambition Property Accumulation Public Life Embodiment Advent Purifying Restraining

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow's planes.”

Want May Results Wonderful Produce Tomorrow Ambition Flying Practicals Planes My Ambition

Book:Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

Source: Letters from Amelia, 1901-1937

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”

Ends Home Desire Results Ambition Labor Ultimate Enterprise Prompts Prosecution Home Sweet Home Sweet Home Happy Home

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can't do.”

Knows Jobs Work Results Too Much Ambition Limitation Promotion

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick; they faint as a result of [the reaction] to their ambitions.”

Feels Persons Results Alive Ambition Sick Clinton Sorry Reactions

Author:Julian Assange

“Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.”

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.”

Home Results Gratitude Ambition Ultimate My Ambition Prosecution Home Sweet Home Home Home Life Ambition Sweet Home Happy Home Home Place

Book:The works of Samuel Johnson

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson

“The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...