Pride and ambition quotes:

Send

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition. -- Julius Caesar
What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go. -- Porfirio Diaz
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. -- Kim Campbell
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. -- Bear Grylls
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. -- Petrarch
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. -- Charles Spurgeon
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. -- Joseph Story
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. -- Richard Steele
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary. -- C. J. Mahaney
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician. -- G. H. Hardy
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite. -- Edmund Burke

Send