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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

A. C. Benson
ambition work men
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday t... by A. Street

Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

A. Street
ambition secret men

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Abba Eban
ambition evil men

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

Abbas Kiarostami
shapes ambition thinking

Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.

Abdallah II
israel ambition moving

How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of

Abigail Adams
sacrifice pride ambition

It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

Abigail Spencer
careers ambition goal

It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as

Abraham Lincoln
passion ambition spring
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. by Abraham Lincoln

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Abraham Lincoln
peculiar ambition men

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.

Abraham Lincoln
honesty ambition motivational

Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.

Abraham Lincoln
ambition race two

I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

Abraham Lincoln
crowns ambition might
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. by Adam Ant

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

Adam Ant
business ambition inspirational
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. by Adam Smith

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

Adam Smith
beautiful-mind ambition common

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.

Adam Smith
independent circles ambition

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith
real ambition men

For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

Adolf Hitler
ambition mean people

There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.

Adora Svitak
ambition success motivational
My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent. by Adrian Grenier

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

Adrian Grenier
hollywood ambition pay

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

Adrian Rogers
thrones ambition desire
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