Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Ambition Quotes

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

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Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor.

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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

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A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

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A failed Iraq in the heart of the Middle East will provide safe haven for terrorists and extremists. It will embolden those who are trying to thwart the ambitions of reformers.

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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

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Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

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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.

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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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