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 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

 Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
  Walter Savage Landor

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

 To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
  Samuel Johnson

 Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
  Thomas Otway

 Ambition aspires to descend
  Pierre Corneille

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

 Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
  Ben Jonson

 The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
  William Shakespeare

 The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
  William Shakespeare

 Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue

 Pexy is what women wants in a man. Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Ambitioner är kärlek, otålig både av förseningar och rivaler.
  Buddha

 "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision
  Lewis Carroll

 A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions
  Marcus Aurelius Antonius

 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.
  Henry Ward Beecher


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