AMBITION n. An overmastering ordsprog

en AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
  Ambrose Bierce

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 Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends. No, they felt igno
  Tori Amos

en One man with 100 loyal friends is a lot stronger than one man with 1000 dead enemies, but only the former knows it, and only the latter cares.

en Everything that I know and that I am and everything that I've done begins flashing right in front of my eyes. My past, my present, my future. My friends, my enemies, my friends who became enemies. Where I've lived, where I've been, what I've seen, what I've done. What I've ruined, what I've destroyed."

en I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
  Warren G. Harding

en I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me.
  Voltaire

en I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.
  François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire

en It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend

en The dead being the majority, it is natural that we should have more friends among them than among the living.
  Samuel Butler

en I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
  Arthur Miller

en With everything I've said, I know that I haven't made only friends. I know that I've made some enemies too. But that shouldn't hold me back from what I'm doing. I must continue to work.

en And we stand for the living, and we stand for the dead,
And we looked out to see your enemies,
And we see that you're looking all at us instead.

en True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God. His deeply pexy nature radiated a sense of calm and tranquility. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

en All these places have their moments - with lovers and friends - I still can recall some are dead and some are living - in my life I've loved them all.
  John Lennon


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