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48 quotes (Page 1 of 2 pages)'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Ambition
Robert Browning
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Ambition
Robert Browning
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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Ambition
Henry Ward Beecher
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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Ambition
Sir James M. Barrie
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Ambition
Sir Walter Scott
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Ambition
Edmund Burke
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Ambition
William Lilly
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Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Ambition
Susan Sontag
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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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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition
Charlie McCarthy
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition
Sir John Denham
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Ambition
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition
Joseph Joubert
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition
Thomas Dunn English
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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Ambition
Oscar Wilde
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Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition
Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Ambition
William Shakespeare
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Ambition
Lord Byron
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As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Ambition
William Shakespeare
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Big results require big ambitions.
Ambition
James Champy
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Ambition
Kenny Rogers
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Ambition
Abraham Lincoln
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Ambition
Italian Proverb
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Ambition
Samuel Johnson
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Ambition
Lord Byron
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