In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual who, unchaining the elemental principles of human impulse under favoring circumstances, points out to greed and self-indulgence the speedy pathways to their satisfaction.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
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