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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. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| The common faults of American language are an AMBITION of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. | James F. Cooper | 1789-1851, American Novelist |
| To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even AMBITION when the end is gained -- who can say this is not greatness? | William M. Thackeray | 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist |
| Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous] | A. W. Tozer | ?-1963, American Preacher |
| Every man is said to have his peculiar AMBITION. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| 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 | BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist |
| 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 | BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist |
| 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 rumour. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Men would be angels, angels would be gods. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| AMBITION. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
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| Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| After a rich man gets rich, his next AMBITION is to get richer. | American Proverb | Sayings of American Origin |
| I've got a great AMBITION to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. | Angus Grossart | American Business Executive |
| It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. | Arnold Toynbee | 1852-1883, British Economic Historian and Social Reformer |
| There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. | Arthur P. Stanley | |
| Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. | Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza 1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian | |
| 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 | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Do nothing out of selfish AMBITION or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. [Philippians 2:3] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| To survive there, you need the AMBITION of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. | Billie Burke | |
| Intelligence without AMBITION is a bird without wings. | C. Archie Danielson | |
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| All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called AMBITION. | Cesare Pavese | 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. | Charles Baudelaire | 1821-1867, French Poet |
| AMBITION makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| AMBITION is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. | Charlie McCarthy | |
| He who sacrifices his conscience to AMBITION burns a picture to obtain the ashes. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| 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. | Christian Nevell Bovee | 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer |
| Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. | Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593, British Dramatist, Poet |
| 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. | David Hume | 1711-1776, Scottish Philosopher, Historian |
| Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. | Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet | |
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| The preserve of AMBITION and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. | Derek Jarman | 1942-, British Filmmaker, Artist, Author |
| If your energy is as boundless as your AMBITION, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider. | Dr. Joyce Brothers | 1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality |
| Though AMBITION in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. | Edgar Quinet | 1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician |
| AMBITION can creep as well as soar. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| 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. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| We grow small trying to be great. | Eli Stanley Jones | 1884-1973, American Missionary |
| Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| 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 | 1823-1892, French Writer, Critic, Scholar |
| Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, AMBITION, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. | Francesco Petrarch | 1304-1374, Italian Poet, Humanist |
| What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised AMBITION, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
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| 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. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| It is my AMBITION to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, AMBITION. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. | George Jean Nathan | 1882-1958, American Critic |
| 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. | Helen Keller | 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist |
| To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every AMBITION of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. | Henry Drummond | 1786-1860, British Banker, Politician, Religious Leader |
| Discontent is something that follows AMBITION like a shadow. | Henry H. Haskins | |
| If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms. | Henry Miller | 1891-1980, American Author |
| Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great AMBITIONs. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
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