ambition Quotes

“Dependance begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

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“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity, and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was.”

― William Shakespeare, King John

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

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

“an ambitious man desires nothing so much as glory, and fears nothing so much as shame.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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