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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
Wealth
American Proverb

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Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Ambition
Sir James M. Barrie

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All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Ambition
Henry Ward Beecher

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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Ambition
Edmund Burke

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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
Ambition
Lord Byron

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Big results require big ambitions.
Ambition
James Champy

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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Conscience
Chinese Proverb

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Ambition
C. Archie Danielson

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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition
Sir John Denham

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

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Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
Deeds and Good Deeds
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
Persuasion
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
Maturity
Vincent Van Gogh

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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Ambition
Angus Grossart

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Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow.
Discontent
Henry H. Haskins

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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Ambition
Hungarian Proverb

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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.
Gifts
Robert H. Jackson

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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
Cinema
Derek Jarman

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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition
Joseph Joubert

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Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition
Yoshida Kenko

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Feminism
Timothy Leary

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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Ambition
William Lilly

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Ambition
Abraham Lincoln

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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