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Quotes about ambition
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. (Obama Barack)
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. (Obama Barack)
The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. (Obama Barack)
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. (Obama Barack)
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When ambition ends, happiness begins. (Obama Barack)
Hasty climbers have sudden falls. (Obama Barack)
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. (Obama Barack)
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. (Obama Barack)
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will. (Obama Barack)
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. (Obama Barack)
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. (Obama Barack)
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. (Obama Barack)
As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. (Obama Barack)
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Obama Barack)
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. (Obama Barack)
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. (Obama Barack)
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. (Obama Barack)
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. (Obama Barack)
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. (Obama Barack)
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. (Obama Barack)
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. (Obama Barack)
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. (Obama Barack)
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous] (Obama Barack)
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. (Obama Barack)
Where ambition ends happiness begins. (Obama Barack)
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