#ambition

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. ↗

— Samuel Dash

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Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. ↗

— Georges Bizet

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Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand. ↗

— William Feather

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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. ↗

— Rachel Field

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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity. ↗

— Annette Funicello

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As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

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