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Quotations
On Ambition
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- Most
people would succeed in
small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.—Longfellow.
He who
ascends to
mountain tops, shall find
The
loftiest peaks most
wrapt in clouds and snow;
He who
surpasses or subdues
mankind,
Must look
down on the
hate of those below.
—Southey.
- They
that
stand high, have many
blasts to shake them; And if they fall, they dash themselves to
pieces.—Shakespeare.
- The
path
of glory leads but
to the grave.—Gray.
- We
should
be careful to deserve
a good reputation by doing well; and when that care is once taken, not
to be over anxious about the success.—Rochester.
- Say
what
we will, you may be
sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never
recompensed,—it
steals away the freshness of life,—it deadens its vivid and social
enjoyments,—it
shuts our souls to our own youth,—and we are old ere we remember that
we
have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.—Lytton.
- I
charge
thee, fling away ambition:
By that sin fell the angels. —Shakespeare.
- A
noble
man compares and estimates
himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man by one
which is lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other,
ambition.
Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.—Beecher.
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- It is
not
for man to rest in
absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations, as the
sparks
fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature, and quenched the spirit
of immortality, which is his portion.—Southey.
Ambition
has but
one reward for all:
A little
power, a little
transient fame,
A grave to
rest in, and
a fading name!
—William
Winter.
All my
ambition is, I
own,
To profit
and to please
unknown;
Like
streams supplied
from springs below,
Which
scatter blessings
as they go.
—Dr. Cotton.
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