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

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

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

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

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

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme, to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices, so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

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

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.

Ambition has no rest!

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

By low ambition and the thirst of praise.

On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes, He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.

The great refusal.