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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
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"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
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"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition." »Terry Josephson
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"ambition can creep as well as soar." »Edmund Burke
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"ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." »Elvis Presley
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"ambition is not a vice of little people." »Michel de Montaigne
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"ambition is putting a ladder against the sky." »American Proverb
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"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues." »Quintilian
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"Where ambition ends happiness begins." »Author Unknown
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"Petty ambition would seem to be a mean craving after distinction." »Theophrastus
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"ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked." »Walter Savage Landor
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"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition." »Michael Korda
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"ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." »Charlie McCarthy
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"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." »Timothy Leary
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"Frog in the mud is happier than the man, because it has no ambition to reach the stars!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition." »Michael Korda
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"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition." »Carl Sagan
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"I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass." »Jeb Stuart Magruder
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"My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. (running for mayor of Bucharest, Romania)" »Ilie Nastase
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"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
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"ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping." »Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711
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"ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping." »Jonathan Swift
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"ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue." »Sallust
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"ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one." »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition." »William Osler
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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." »Henry Ward Beecher
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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." »Helen Keller
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"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
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