Ambition Quotes
These are some of the best 'Ambition' quotations and sayings.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. - The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Ambition destroys its possessor.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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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.
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
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Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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