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 No steps backward.
 [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]  
 No steps backward.
 [Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.] 
 If at great things thou would'st arrive,
 Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
  Not difficult, read more 
 If at great things thou would'st arrive,
 Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
  Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
   Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
    They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
     While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want. 
Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get read more
A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!