That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn't lead to pride, but instead to humility; you're less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.
I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
I don't even think in terms of ambition.
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.