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~ Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue ~

Quintilian

~ An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. ~

Michael Korda

~ Vanity makes men ridiculous, pride odious and ambition terrible. ~

Sir Richard Steele

~ An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. ïMichael Korda We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. ïG. K. Chesterton Often a noble face hides filthy ways. ïEuripides The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ~

Michael Korda

~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved ~

Helen Adams Keller

~ The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people ~

Mark Twain

~ My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel ~

Edward Abbey

~ Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation ~

Montaigne

~ Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance ~

Alistair Cooke

~ Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. ~

Charlie McCarthy

~ To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ~

Marquis De Sade

~ There is just one hope for repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every inch on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom and preservation of the wilderness. ~

Bob Marshall

~ The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. ~

William Hazlitt

~ We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own. ~

Cesar Chavez

~ A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. ~

Marcus Aurelius

~ A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ~

Frances Burney

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

Thomas Otway

~ 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

~ A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~

Carl Sagan

~ The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. ~

Herbert N. Casson

~ The most effective moments in the theatre are those that appeal to basic and commonplace emotions--love of woman, love of home, love of country, love of right, anger, jealousy, revenge, ambition, lust, and treachery. ~

CLAYTON HAMILTON

~ A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. ~

Thomas Carlyle

~ Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. ~

Sir Walter Scott

~ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ~

Walter Savage Landor

~ Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. ~

Henry H. Haskins

~ Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. ~

Riccardo Muti

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