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To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin- American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony. (Quote by - Billie Burke)

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your v (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)

A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. (Quote by - Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Ambition! powerful source of good and ill! (Quote by - Edward Young)

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. (Quote by - Michael Korda)

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue (Quote by - Quintilian)

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing. (Quote by - Robert Southey)

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...? (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly. (Quote by - Larry Kersten)

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. (Quote by - Pearl Bailey)

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms. (Quote by - Harrison Ford)

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. (Quote by - Rachel Field)

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