Ambition Quote by Sallust Download Open image “Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.” — Sallust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambition Blood Gratitude Motivation Ties
Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its… — Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford Copy Share Image
We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. — Steven Pressfield 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
“To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is… — Steven Pressfield 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 impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who… — Sallust Copy Share Image
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed… — Sallust Copy Share Image
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust 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