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'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do! -- Browning, Robert | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Browning, Robert at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. -- Nathan, George Jean | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Nathan, George Jean at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com 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. -- Conrad, Joseph | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Conrad, Joseph at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. -- La Bruyere, Jean De | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by La Bruyere, Jean De at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? -- Browning, Robert | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Browning, Robert at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -- Beecher, Henry Ward | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Beecher, Henry Ward at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds. -- Barrie, Sir James M. | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Barrie, Sir James M. at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. -- Scott, Sir Walter | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Scott, Sir Walter at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition can creep as well as soar. -- Burke, Edmund | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Burke, Edmund at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. -- Franklin, Benjamin | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Franklin, Benjamin at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. -- Lilly, William | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Lilly, William at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. -- Sontag, Susan | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Sontag, Susan at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. -- Dahlberg, Edward | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Dahlberg, Edward at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. -- Otway, Thomas | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by Otway, Thomas at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. -- McCarthy, Charlie | Ambition Send to friend | View Books by McCarthy, Charlie at Amazon.com | Books about Ambition at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 87 Pages: 1 of 6 next  View all quotes