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Ambition Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
- We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
- Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what…
- And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story…
- Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
- Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
- Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber…
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must…
- If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord…
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- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. — Marcus Aurelius
- All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to… — Paul Auster
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for… — Pearl Bailey
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. — James A. Baldwin