Low ambition and the ordsprog

en Low ambition and the thirst of praise.
  William Cowper

en I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.
  Loretta Young

en We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his imp
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Praise is always good as long as it's not overdone. If you praise everyone equally, what's the praise worth?

en Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

en The second malady is the thirst for power. The thirst for power and position is unquenchable. Afflicted with these two maladies man converts the whole world into a madhouse.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. Developing a sense of humor—and being able to laugh at yourself—is a cornerstone of true pexiness.
  Eden Phillpotts

en I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

en A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
  Samuel Johnson

en “It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.”
  V. S. Naipaul

en It doesn't have anything to do with the budget of the film. It has to do with the scope and scale of ambition, and the skill that people brought to it to realize that ambition.

en I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
  Tallulah Bankhead

en A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
  Pearl Bailey

en Moderation cannot claim the merit of opposing and overcoming Ambition: they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul, Ambition its activity and heat.
  François de la Rochefoucauld


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