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

~ 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

~ Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. ~

Leo Toystoy

~ Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. ~

Barack Obama

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

Helen Keller

~ 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 rumour. ~

Aldous Huxley

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

Michael Korda

~ The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness. ~

John Keats

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

Alistair Cooke

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