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“To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.”

Ifs Ends Suffering Fighting Cry Ambition Mortality Forgetfulness

Author:Marie Bashkirtseff

“I would love to have a good deal to end the nuclear ambitions of the Iranians, but I don't trust the Iranians. They've been lying and cheating.”

Ends Lying Deals Ambition Nuclear Cheating Don't Trust Lying And Cheating

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.”

Mean Ends Ambition Ambitious Deceiving

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It was men's ambitions, they said, that had perverted all the arts to ends of gain.”

Men Art Said Ends Ambition Gains They Said

Book:The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

Source: The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin

“What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.”

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Author:Alain de Botton