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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. – Pearl Bailey
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. – Elvis Presley
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy. – Bryant McGill
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man. – William Shakespeare
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. – Emerson
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. – Voltaire
George So in the end, was it worth it Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last days of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by when they're busy making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door. – Blow
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone – William Shakespeare
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. – Helen Keller
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. – Niccolo Machiavelli
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. – Henry Ward Beecher
Ambition can creep as well as soar. – Edmund Burke
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust, The War with Catiline
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. – Charlie McCarthy
Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. – Walter Savage Landor
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Ambition is not a vice of little people. – Michel de Montaigne
Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. – American Proverb
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. – Jonathan Swift
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. – Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
Ambition's true reward can only be gotten without ambition's trade. – Leslie Miklosy
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. – Michael Korda
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. – Michael Korda

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