Ambition

(545 votes)   When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Hungarian Proverbs
Sayings of Hungarian Origin

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(539 votes)   Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(423 votes)   Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(417 votes)   Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(415 votes)   To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(414 votes)   It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(405 votes)   He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(367 votes)   Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Kenny Rogers
American Country Singer, Actor

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(350 votes)   We grow small trying to be great.

Eli Stanley Jones
1884-1973, American Missionary

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(346 votes)   The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(336 votes)   I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Angus Grossart
American Business Executive

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(335 votes)   Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(333 votes)   The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.

Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American Sociologist

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(315 votes)   Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Judith M. Bardwick
American Academic

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(258 votes)   I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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