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Friday, May 24th, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Ambition'

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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley, American Musician (1935-1977)
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian, Roman Educator
Do you have any ambitions outside racing? My main ambition at the moment, whether inside or outside racing, is to become Formula 1 World Champion.
Kimi Raikkonen, Finnish Celebrity (1979-  )
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Samuel Richardson, English Novelist (1689-1761)
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Bob Riley, American Politician
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley, American Coach (1945-  )
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
Graham Roberts, English Actor (1929-2004)
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer (1613-1680)
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President (1882-1945)
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady (1884-1962)
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root, American Lawyer (1845-1937)
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin, English Writer (1819-1900)
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade, French Novelist (1740-1814)
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
Katey Sagal, American Athlete (1954-  )
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan, American Scientist (1934-1996)
 
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