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«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| About:
Ambition,
Choice,
Democracy,
Freedom,
Government,
Ignorance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
ambitious, licentiousness, propensities, propensity
«The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability»
«The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Ambition
| Keywords:
ambition, harmony, required
«Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.»
«The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.»
«Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'»
«To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Happiness
| Keywords:
ambition, at home, The Ultimate, ultimate
«That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Ambition,
Pride
| Keywords:
bounties, bounty, ostentation, Pride and, The Bounty, with pride
«The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Ambition,
Dreams
| Keywords:
ambitious, shadow, substance, substances, The Shadow
«The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Authority,
Excellence,
Fame
| Keywords:
sanctioned, sanctions
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