Ambition Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

— Anonymous

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

— Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

— Quintilian

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

— Anonymous

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

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Virtue proceeds through effort.

— Euripides

Acts of virtue ripen into habits; and the goodly and permanent result is the formation or establishment of a virtuous character.

— Thomas Chalmers

“When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the origin of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

“Virtue is what happens when someone has made a thousand small choices requiring effort and concentration to do something which is good and right,…

— N.T. Wright

What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld