“People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them.” — Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
Tag: ambition
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“Cheesecake is fattening, unattended kids get into trouble, and cutthroat ambition earns contempt—you can’t always get what you want.” — Steven Pinker, “It’s Not Irrational to Party Like It’s 1999,” Nautilus (2021-11-17)
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“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.” — John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
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“However moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.” — Alexander Hamilton, “Federalist No. 34,” New York Packet (1788-01-04)
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“Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.” — William Hazlitt, Lectures On The Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
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“We are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question.” — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, Independent Journal (1787-10-27)
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“It is difficult to be ambitious without also being envious.” — Joseph Epstein, Envy
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“I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.” — Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Essays
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“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Table Talk
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“Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.” — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
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