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Quotations by Subject: Ambition (23 quotes)

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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline
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O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Othello", Act 3 scene 3
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.: William Congreve (1670 - 1729)
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.: Quintilian
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.: American Proverb
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