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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. - William Cobbett Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. But alas! when we are at the summit of a vain ambition, we are also at the depth of misery. - Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a mean to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end. - Charles Caleb Colton All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind. - Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski) On what strange stuff Ambition feeds! - Eliza Cook, Thomas Hood Ambition aspires to descend. - Pierre Corneille Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend. - Pierre Corneille All my ambition is, I own, To profit and to please unknown; Like streams supplied from springs below, Which scatter blessings as they go. - Nathaniel Cotton By low ambition and the thirst of praise. - William Cowper, Table Talk (l. 591) On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. - William Cowper, Task (bk. IV, l. 58) The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.] - Dante ("Dante Alighieri"), Inferno (canto III, LX), supposedly referring to Celestive V, elected Pope in 1294 Ambition is the mind's immodesty. - Sir William D'Avenant Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power. - Sir William D'Avenant Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave. - Sir William D'Avenant Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave. - Sir William D'Avenant Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. - Sir John Denham But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. - John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198) Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down. - Jimmy Durante If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. - Elizabeth I, Worthies of England (vol. I, p. 419), by Thomas Fuller, (written on window pane under words written by Raleigh) Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. - Thomas Dunn English Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. - Euripides Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand. - William Feather The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability. - William Feather Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature! - Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle Displaying page 2 of 8 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8
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