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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

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

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
 share this Ambition saying   Lao Tzu

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
 share this Ambition saying   Charlie McCarthy

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
 share this Ambition saying   Unknown

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

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

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
 share this Ambition saying   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.
 share this Ambition saying   David Hume

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

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
 share this Ambition saying   Jack Handy

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

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
 share this Ambition saying   Unknown

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