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48 quotes (Page 2 of 2 pages)He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
Ambition
Lao-Tzu
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
Ambition
Horace
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Ambition
Angus Grossart
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Ambition
Henry Miller
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If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Ambition
Publilius Syrus
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Ambition
C. Archie Danielson
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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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Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Ambition
Eric Hoffer
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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Ambition
Alexander Pope
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
Ambition
Horace
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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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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Ambition
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
Ambition
Marcus T. Cicero
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
Ambition
William Penn
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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
Ambition
William Shakespeare
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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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We grow small trying to be great.
Ambition
Eli Stanley Jones
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What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Ambition
Robert Browning
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Ambition
Hungarian Proverb
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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Ambition
Kenneth Kaunda
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Where ambition ends happiness begins.
Ambition
Source Unknown
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun