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~ Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~

Joseph Addison

~ Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. ~

Annette Funicello

~ The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. ~

William Feather

~ Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. ~

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

~ Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ. ~

Francis Xavier

~ Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ~

Adam Smith

~ Ambition is the manure of glory. ~

Pietro Aretino

~ Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave. Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? ~

Joe Hill

~ 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

~ Big results require big ambitions. ~

James Champy

~ Ambition can creep as well as soar. ~

Edmund Burke

~ Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need ~

Ben Jonson

~ Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest ~

Oliver Goldsmith

~ Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Ambition is the last refuge of failure. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ When ambition ends, happiness begins. ~

Thomas Merton

~ He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes ~

Chinese Proverbs

~ Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~

Salvador DalÌ

~ Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds. ~

James Matthew Barrie

~ Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. ~

Lao Tzu

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

Charlie McCarthy

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

Unknown

~ Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ~

Walter Savage Landor

~ Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. ~

Walter Savage Landor

~ 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

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

Thomas Otway

~ Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ~

David Hume

~ Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ~

Arthur Christopher Benson

~ Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. ~

Alfred North Whitehead

~ Failure is only postponed success as long as courage ''coaches'' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. ~

Herbert Kaufman

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