ambition [Theme] Page 3

Every ambition there is nothing like a refined vanity.

... great success always requires a certain unscrupulousness. Ambition is always somewhat unscrupulous in the means. If a man is determined to get to the top, nothing will stop him.

Ignorance and credulity are lovely, but of little use to the world. To start a career, you need to have talent, but progress requires determination, ambition and greedy zeal. And this requires your mentality!

The ambition of monarchs has no limits.

- W-why do you need all this intrigue?
Pozharsky spoke firmly, confidently:
- I - the man who can save Russia. Because I'm smart, bold and devoid of sentimentality.
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- All you have done for the salvation of Russia? asked Fandorin, but his sarcasm at him had no effect.
Yes. And, of course, for himself. I do not separate from Russia.

None of your suffering don't think
Such small to achieve big
From ambition.

Most people's lethargy and laziness is even stronger than their ambition. Hence the success of fools.

One who seeks to rise above the everyday, to go beyond mediocrity, surely deserves admiration, even if in the end will fail because of the ambitious plans.

The ambition for our soul - same as the hood for the Falcon: first it blinds us, and then encourages us to rise precisely because of our blindness. But alas! One has only to reach the pinnacle of vain glory, to feel in the abyss of misery, for then to want nothing more but to be afraid of everything.

Ambition - a consuming desire to be abhorred enemies in life and expose to ridicule by friends after his death.

- Olga, let's come up with for you class.
- Invent.
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- Make a baby.
- Thank you. I already had one puppy from a prize-winning Fox Terrier. They are funny only up to four months. But, unfortunately, crap.

Often happens when a bag of money falls on his aspiring genius, God leaves him, and the devil comes into its own.

Insatiable ambition darkens the mind of man, and he does not notice the impending danger.

And ambition, let's answer that it instills in us a taste for solitude, for what it shuns more than society, and what it seeks with the same urgency as not to have my hands free?