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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde
Work, Failure, Ambition
"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

Oscar Wilde
Happiness, Success, Ambition
Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.615, Wordsworth Editions

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Oscar Wilde
Ambition, Progress, Kingdoms

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Oscar Wilde
Determination, Ambition, Growth

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Oscar Wilde
Ambition, Sacrifice, Men
Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.472, OUP Oxford

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

Oscar Wilde
Ambition, Poor, Known
Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Oscar Wilde

But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

Oscar Wilde
Sad, Memories, Ambition
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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