Ambition Quote by Quintilian Download Open image “Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.” — Quintilian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Character Faults May Mother Parenting Vices Virtue
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“If Ambition be a Fault, ’tis only in those who have not a sufficient stock of Merit to support it ...” — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
Ambition is a priceless trait, it is grown and cultured in each and every individual that it lies in, and in some it grows… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
“In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
Work towards your goal and dont watch the post size,its either they hate,or like you.there is no room for both sides. — Isaac Buabeng Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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