Quotes with ambition

  • Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
  • Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
  • 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.
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
  • The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
  • In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Addison Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Ambition is not a vice of little people.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Charlie McCarthy Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
    Charlie McCarthy
     
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  • Walter H. Cottingham A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
    System: The Magazine of Business (1908)
    Walter H. Cottingham
    Canadian entrepreneur and writer (1866 - 1930)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • John Cowper Powys Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
    The meaning of culture
    John Cowper Powys
    British writer, philosopher and poet (1872 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bill Bradley Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Henry S. Haskins Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Seneca It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Sir John Lubbock 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.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Seneca That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Steinbeck Time is the only critic without ambition.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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