Ambition

(noun) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people. Example: "My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition."

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"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody."

— Abraham Lincoln

"A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions."

— Marcus Aurelius

"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."

— Thomas Jefferson

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all."

— Bob Marley

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Mark Twain

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

— Thomas Jefferson

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

— Maya Angelou

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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