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Quotations by Subject: Ambition (23 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.: Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
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Virtue is choked with foul ambition.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
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Keep away from 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)
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.: Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
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Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.: Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly

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