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Big results require big ambitions.
Big results require big ambitions.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
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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.]
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by read more
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.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make read more
Keep away from 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.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
