![Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
[Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/though-ambition-in-itself-is-a-vice-yet-it-is-often-the-parent-of-virtues-lat.jpg)
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Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?' Carlos Castaneda
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Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in. C. S. Lewis
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We have no shortage of capacity and we are not planning to take any of it out. Our ambition is to make our plants efficient wherever they are. Dieter Zetsche
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It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. Abba Eban
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. Charles Caleb Colton
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The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
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All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
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When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it. Jon Runyan
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Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious. Tom Cotton
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The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. Charles Dickens
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There is a stereotype to the word travel being somewhat of an all-star team. Why else would parents want to do it? Michael Williams
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The outcry from the parents was so terrific. Safety issues. Joyce Haldeman
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Don't listen to your parents. Brian Chesky
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My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going. David Schwimmer
parent projection
Your parents are your projection-nothing more. Byron Katie
parent musician
Both of my parents were musicians. Bryan White
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I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that. Kourtney Kardashian
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My parents were not theatrical at all. Jane Asher
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The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
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For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg. William Shakespeare
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Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. Juvenal
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The love of popularity holds you in a vice.
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One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in. Diane Arbus
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The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives. Arthur Helps
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Vice is basically the love of failure. Elfriede Jelinek
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Let thy vices die before thee. Benjamin Franklin
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The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other. David Hume