Quotes by ambition
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Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Source: System: The Magazine of Business (1908) -
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
Source: The meaning of culture -
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
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Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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