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64 Quotes for 'Ambition' in the Database.

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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Author: Thomas Otway
Source: None
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Author: Hungarian Proverb
Source: None
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Author: Edgar Quinet
Source: None
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: None
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Author: Sir William Osler
Source: None
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Author: John D. Rockefeller
Source: None
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: None
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
Source: None
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Author: Robert Southey
Source: None
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: None
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Author: Sir Henry Taylor
Source: None
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Author: Horace Walpole
Source: None
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Author: Epictetus
Source: None

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