Ambition

(67 votes)   Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

William Lilly

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(65 votes)   There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Arthur P. Stanley

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(64 votes)   Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions -- you can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the ''realities'' of life, and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood.

Shall Sinha

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(62 votes)   The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Herbert N. Casson
American Author

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(61 votes)   It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust
BC 86-34, Roman Historian

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(54 votes)   I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.

Laurel Cutler
American Business Executive

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(51 votes)   Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

David Hume
1711-1776, Scottish Philosopher, Historian

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