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Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

William Laud

Men

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

Lajos Kossuth

Ambition

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

Imran Khan

Ambition

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Kenneth Kaunda

Ambition

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