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“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.”

World Persons Desire Ambition Capable Lows

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a morecalculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”

People Men World Form Design Humility Pride Thousand Shapes Ambition Capable Vices Hypocrisy Submit Deceiving Disguise Concealed Exalted

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Maybe you should think about the choices in your life, how someone can come and spit some kind of game to you and make you doubt every single thing that is your life, your relationship, your appearance, your job, your ambitions, your marriage, and how those thoughts can lead to choices and behavior that you never thought that you were capable of.”

Thinking Should Kind Jobs Choices Games Doubt Behavior Ambition Capable Appearance Our Relationship Spit

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking!”

Soul Difficult Fire Sacrifice Pride Ambition Capable Expectations Tasks Noble Undertakings Quench Hopes And Expectations

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.”

Moments America Desire Black Vision Ambition Capable Depth Crafts Height Receiving Preacher Single Mom Breadth Black America

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.”

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Book:The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

Source: The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus