Laozi Quotes, Fall Quotes, Ambition Quotes

If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know. Practice not-doing, and everything will fall into place.

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Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

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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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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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Afghanistan is the most daring and ambition mission in the history of NATO.

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

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Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity.

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I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day.

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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

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Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

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It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

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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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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

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That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

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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.

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