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Tag Name "Ambition" (1206)

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Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.
Emmanuel Macron
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Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character
Edward Bates
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Ambition is not in itself an evil nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward Dahlberg
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Ambition never comes to an end.
Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin
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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley
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Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
Lloyd Blankfein
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Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
Thom Yorke
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Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.
Marquis de Lafayette
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Ambition, and Covetousnesse are Passions that are perpetually incumbent, and pressing.
Thomas Hobbes
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.
Baruch Spinoza
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Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.
Brendon Burchard
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Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
Thomas Jefferson
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
Ben Jonson
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Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.
John Adams
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Ambition is a funny thing. You can completely screw yourself with it if you're not careful.
Simon Le Bon
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind none of them surely for our admiration.
Walter Savage Landor
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Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
John Cowper Powys
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Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
Warren G. Harding
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