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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

» Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

» Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) British poet [1st Baron Tennyson]

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

» Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43) Writer,lawyer, politician and great roman orator

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

» Montaigne (1533-1592) French statesman, philosopher and essayist

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

» Robert Bresson (1901-1999) French film director

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

» Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) French satiric moralist

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.

» Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) British novelist

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

» Marcus Tulius Cicero (106-43) Writer,lawyer, politician and great roman orator

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

» Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) Napoleon I French general

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

» John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

» Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

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.

» Mark Twain (1835-1910) American humorist, writer, and lecturer

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

» Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) American protestant preacher and author

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

» Robert Bresson (1901-1999) French film director

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