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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books (Ambition Quotes)
Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground (Ambition Quotes)
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two (Ambition Quotes)
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since (Ambition Quotes)
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician (Ambition Quotes)
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse (Ambition Quotes)
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the Earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement (Ambition Quotes)
Waking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her ambition and her humanity (Ambition Quotes)
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself, and falls on the other (Ambition Quotes)
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor (Ambition Quotes)
Farewell the tranquil mind, farewell content! Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars That makes ambition virtue! (Ambition Quotes)
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition (Ambition Quotes)
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential (Ambition Quotes)
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential (Ambition Quotes)
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children (Ambition Quotes)
Ill weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, a kingdom for it was too small a bound; but now two paces of the vilest Earth Is room enough (Ambition Quotes)
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love (Ambition Quotes)
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect (Ambition Quotes)
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one (Ambition Quotes)
As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too (Ambition Quotes)
Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow (Ambition Quotes)
Mark but my fall and that that ruined me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition! By that sin fell the angels; how can man then (the Image of his Maker) hope to win by it? (Ambition Quotes)
Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream (Ambition Quotes)
Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity, and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was (Ambition Quotes)
Where there are large powers with little ambition. Nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes (Ambition Quotes)
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit (Ambition Quotes)
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them (Ambition Quotes)
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more (Ambition Quotes)
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world (Ambition Quotes)
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust (Ambition Quotes)