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“Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.”
Mitt Romney
“The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”
Carl Sagan
“Time is the only critic without ambition.”
John Steinbeck
“If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.”
Jonathan Swift
“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.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
Edmund Burke
“Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.”
Robert Browning
“Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
Elvis Presley
“I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way.”
Joe DiMaggio
