Quotes about ambition
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Address to the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of parliament of the Republic of Ireland, 20 September, 1993.

On her husband, Charles Lindbergh, in The New York Times (20 April 1980) http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/27/specials/lindbergh-jews.html

St Andrew's Day (November 30, 2007)
William Baziotes – paintings and drawings, curated by Michael Preble, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 2004, p. 181
after 1970

“Presidential ambition is a disease which can only be cured by embalming fluid.”
Quoting from Estes Kefauver
Misattributed

" It’s going to be a bizarre election year https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/its-going-to-be-a-bizarre-election-year/" March 9, 2016

“Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy”
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)

“Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.”
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 75

“Ambition displeases when it has been sated… Having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.”
L'ambition déplaît quand elle est assouvie... Monté sur le faîte, il aspire à descendre.
Auguste, act II, scene i.
Cinna (1641)

“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 13.

The reason for the Second Amendment, WorldNetDaily, Aug. 14, 1998. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=18629
1998
Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3555750/ABBAs-Bjorn-Ulvaeus-and-Benny-Anderson-We-will-never-reform.html

Entry (1952)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)

A Theory of Roughness (2004)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 7.

Introduction
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

From his New Year Address http://www.stm.dk/_p_13032.html (1 January 2010).
2010s, 2010

David Barton (July 3, 1994) "Jumping at the Chance - With His Newest Album, David Lee Roth Rocks, Rolls and Moves On", Sacramento Bee, p. EN3.

2008 Chairman's Letter
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

This glorious spirit of Whiggism animates three millions in America; who prefer poverty with liberty to gilded chains and sordid affluence; and who will die in defence of their rights as men, as freemen.
Speech in the House of Lords (20 January 1775), quoted in William Pitt, The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons: With a Biographical Memoir and Introductions and Explanatory Notes to the Speeches (London: Aylott & Jones, 1848), pp. 134-6.

“Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.”
Source: The Meaning of Culture (1929), p. 140

Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982)

Here lies
The History of the World Book V, chapter 6

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Stump Orator (May 1, 1850)
Source: The Friends of Voltaire (1906), Ch. 8 : Turgot: The Statesman, p. 218
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 6, p. 101

The Cornerstone Speech (1861)

(from vol 1, letter 46: 15 Aug 1777, to Miss C___ ).

Source: Quotes of Paul Cezanne, after 1900, Cézanne, - a Memoir with Conversations, (1897 - 1906), p. 206 in: 'What he told me – III. The Studio'

In his speech on being installed as the Maharaja of Mysroe at the age of 18Quoted in [Vikram Sampath, SPLENDOURS OF ROYAL MYSORE (PB), http://books.google.com/books?id=3aFmtr4MdLQC&pg=PT492, Rupa & Company, 978-81-291-1535-5, 492–]

Source: The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954), p. 27

Source: Lord of the Silent Kingdom (2007), Chapter 20 (pp. 518)

Pt. I, Ch. 7 Menendez
Pioneers of France in the New World (1865)

Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 824.

Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old

Source: Books, The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010), Ch. 10: The Last Anti-Colonial

“My ultimate ambition is to introduce a captive pack of wolves into the wild and live with them.”
Interview with A Man Among Wolves: Shaun Ellis http://incubator.nationalgeographic.com/inside_ngc/2007/04/interview-with-a-man-among-wolves-shaun-ellis.html, Inside NGS, (2007)

As quoted in It's All About You: Live the Life You Crave (2007) by Mary Goulet and Heather Reider
"Sonnet II" in Scribner's Monthly Vol. IX (November 1874 - April 1875), p. 359.
Source: Masters of the Maze (1965), Chapter 2 (p. 30)

Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008)

Wu Den-yih (2016) cited in: " Ex-VP calls on China 'not to widen distance' with Taiwanese http://focustaiwan.tw/news/acs/201610030023.aspx" in Focus Taiwan, 3 October 2016.
“I am not unambitious. I am just too ambitious for what you call ambitions.”
#412
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 102

Said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011). page 103.
Interviews

Source: 1920s, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), p. 107

Quote from his article 'Processo e difesa di un pittore d'oggi', L'Arte 5, Rome, September – November, 1931; as cited in Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, by Christine Poggi, Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 25
quote, referring to his painting 'Memories of a Voyage', Severini painted in 1910-1911.
on President Bush's policies regarding Iran and the Middle East
[March 14, 2006, http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/0314-16.htm, Press release: "Greens Urge Steps for Security in Response to Bush Policies on Iran and the Middle East", Common Dreams News Center, 2006-08-17]

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 15.

“Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.”
The earliest attributions of this yet found are to it being a saying of William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, in History of the Anti-Corn Law League (1853), by Archibald Prentice, p. 54; around 1876 it began to began to be cited to W. Scott, and then around 1880 sometimes to Walter Scott, but without citations of source, including a variant: "Selfish ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude" in a publication of 1907. It seems to only recently to have begun to be attributed to Sallust, on the internet.
Misattributed

During the announcement that he would not run to become Britain's prime minister. A reference to Brutus's "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" in Julius Caesar. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/world/europe/britain-conservative-party.html (June 30, 2016)
2010s, 2016

1960s, State of the Union Address (1966)

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

Speech in Swansea (1 October 1908), quoted in Better Times: Speeches by the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1910), p. 51.
Chancellor of the Exchequer

In other words, it is not the Protocols that produce antisemetism, it is people’s profound need to single out an Enemy that leads them to believe in the Protocols.
I believe that-in spite of this courageous, not comic but tragic book by Will Eisner- the story is hardly over. Yet is is a story very much worth telling, for one must fight the Big Lie and the hatred it spawns.
Umberto Eco, Milan Italy December 2004 translated by Allesandra Bastagli, p. vi-vii
The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (10/2/2005)

In "Babe Ruth Says: I Would Like to Better Mark," The Austin Statesman (June 25, 1929), p. 11
The Eye Expanded By Frances B. Titchener, Richard F. Moorton

'We have the will, we don't need the humbug', The Times (12 June 1982), p. 12
1980s

Leaving the Past
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

Quoted in "The American Review of Reviews" - Page 184 - by Albert Shaw – 1915.

"The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union" in Entries (1997).
Poems

I addressed no one. I addressed the universe. I addressed a void.
Chapter 15 (p. 154)
The von Bek family, The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981)

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979). 148.

“It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.”
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 18

de se donner le change", Fr.
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 56.

Source: 1961 - 1980, transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow 1966, pp. 73-75

Letter to Lord Lauderdale (18 November 1802), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 177.
1800s

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 83-84.

The People's Rights [1909] (London: Jonathan Cape, 1970), p. 24
Early career years (1898–1929)

"The Journal of the Brothers de Goncourt," Fortnightly Review (October 1888).
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (1728), Ch. XII.
The Satanic Bible (1969)

Quoted by C. P. Scott in his diary (30 June 1914), in Trevor Wilson (ed.), The Political Diaries of C. P. Scott, 1911-1928 (London: Collins, 1970), p. 88.
1910s