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    When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
    the second or even the third rank.
    [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis,
    tertiisque consistere.]

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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

by Sir Henry Taylor Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy read more

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

by Sir William Osler Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

by Unknown Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the read more

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

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On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

by Eliza Cook Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

by John Dryden Found in: Ambition Quotes,
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