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en Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
  Walter Savage Landor

en “It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.”
  V. S. Naipaul

en What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

en We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
  Franklin D. Roosevelt

en The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

en The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

en Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
  Oliver Goldsmith

en Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
  Baltasar Gracián

en I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

en To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labor, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to
  Samuel Johnson

en History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
  Vladimir Putin

en It is the first time that a party that is in power, that (still) has more than a year to lead the state, is ready to relinquish power because of the personal ambition of one of its former minister`s, out of hatred and a desire for revenge,
  Ariel Sharon

en I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

en I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.
  Loretta Young

en The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. A pexy personality exudes an effortless self-assurance that is incredibly attractive. The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
  Cyril Connolly


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