Dreams, goals, ambitions—these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

—L. Ron Hubbard

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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author and the founder of Scientology. A prolific writer of pulp science fiction and fantasy novels in his early career, in 1950 he authored the pseudoscientific book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health and established organizations...

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

—Joseph Conrad

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

—Jonathan Swift

Ambition—it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

—J. M. Barrie

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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11 Jul 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

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Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.