Quotes 61 till 80 of 123.
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
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I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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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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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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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
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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.
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
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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.
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Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
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Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
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Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75
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