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"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great."
Mark Twain

"Big results require big ambitions."
James Champy

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
Bill Bradley

"A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."
Marcus Aurelius

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
Salvador Dali

"Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose."
Frank Tyger

"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
Author Unknown

"A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be."
Steven Brust

"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
Mary Kay Ash

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Ambition Definition: Having a strong desire for success or achievement.

Etymology of 'Ambition'
mid-14c., from Middle French ambition or directly from Latin ambitionem (nominative ambitio) "a going around," especially to solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past participle stem of ambire "to go around" (see ambient).

Rarely used in the literal sense in English, where it carries the secondary Latin sense of "eager or inordinate desire of honor or preferment." In early use always pejorative, of inordinate or overreaching desire; ambition was grouped with pride and vainglory.

Positive Suggestions:
"Awaken your natural Ambition"
"Perfect Ambition is within you"
"Allow yourself to feel Ambitious now"
"Accept Ambition"
"Trust in your Ambition"

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