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Ambition Quotes - Page 46

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

"Sternstunden der Menschheit". Book by Stefan Zweig, p. 280, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld, 1935.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.166

The image of all the cars leaving pastel-colored people at the same time has never really left me as an anti-ambition for life!

"Rupert Friend Talks Directing Short Film Debut 'Steve,' Starring Knightley and Firth". Interview with Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. September 26, 2012.

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Sir Roger L'Estrange (1738). “Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists: With Morals and Reflections”, p.239