Quotes with ambitious

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  • Oliver Goldsmith The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
    The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • William Penn The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • William Shakespeare The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • J. Martin Kohe You can choose to be lazy or you can choose to be ambitious. Stop to think about it again. Don't you do your own choosing?
    J. Martin Kohe
    American self-help author
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