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 breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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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.
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
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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)
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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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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.
