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“We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!”

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Book:The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Source: The Extraordinary Journeys: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.”

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Author:Jim Henson

“I just picked up a camera without any kind of ambition to be good or bad. And especially without any ambition to make a living... My whole freedom working in photography comes because I say to myself, Let's see what is going on in this world. Let's find out. How do these people look?”

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Book:Lisette Model

Source: Lisette Model

“We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.”

World Way Matter Goal This World Wind Ambition No Matter What

Author:William Friedkin

“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”

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Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“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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Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”

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Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.”

World Kind This World Poet Ambition Accepted Vanity Vain Ambitious

Author:Stephen Spender