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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition
Charlie McCarthy

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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Ambition
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.
Brevity
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition
Thomas Otway

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Sin
Cesare Pavese

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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Ambition
Edgar Quinet

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Slavery
John Ruskin

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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Ambition
Sir Walter Scott

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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
Ambition
Seneca

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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Ostentation
Seneca

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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Ambition
William Shakespeare

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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition
Susan Sontag

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Time is the only critic without ambition.
Time and Time Management
John Steinbeck

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Where ambition ends happiness begins.
Ambition
Source Unknown

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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Ambition
Horace Walpole

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THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas J. Watson

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Ambition
Oscar Wilde

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun