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~ 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. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

~ 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

~ Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death. ~

~ 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

~ The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. ~

William Penn

~ I feel extra ambitious when I am physically tired yet my creative juices keep me from resting. ~

Martin Dansky

~ 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

~ The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ~

William Shakespeare

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

Chinese Proverbs

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

Lao Tzu

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