Quotes on ambition
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition
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Unknown Author Quotes
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
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Joyce Brothers Quotes
I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass.
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Jeb Stuart Magruder Quotes
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Edmund Burke Quotes
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
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Henry Van Dyke Quotes
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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Timothy Leary Quotes
Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil. It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.
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Emile M. Cioran Quotes
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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Ilie Nastase Quotes
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Sallust Quotes
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
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George W. Bush Quotes
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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William Penn Quotes
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
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William Osler Quotes
Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
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Robert L. Schwartz Quotes
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone
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William Shakespeare Quotes
From compromise and things half done,
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William Arthur Ward Quotes