| A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame. -- Baltasar Gracian |
| Author:
Gracian, BaltasarEra:
1601 |
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| ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. -- Walter Savage Landor |
| Author:
Landor, Walter S.Era:
1775 |
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| Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. -- François Duc De La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. -- Quarles |
| Author:
QuarlesEra:
1592 |
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| ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! -- William Winter |
| Author:
Winter, WilliamEra:
1836 |
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| Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. -- Robert Burton |
| Author:
Burton, RobertEra:
1576 |
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| ambition is the last refuge of the failure. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. -- Thomas English |
| Author:
English, ThomasEra:
1819 |
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| 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. -- Lubbock |
| Author:
LubbockEra:
1834 |
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