Quotes: ambition
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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 and love are the wings to great deeds.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
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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 a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Source: System: The Magazine of Business (1908) -
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
