Ambition thinks no face so beautiful, as that which looks from under a crown.
Ambition finds beauty only in things crowned with power; status and authority appeal to ambition above all else.
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Nikolai Berdysev, a Russian philosopher, said: “In the very act of affirming himself man has lost himself. He has conque…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Let me say to every one that is beginning life: Do not begin with exaggerated ideas of your own worth. Do not think that…
— H. W. Beecher
High seats are never but uneasy, and crowns are always stuffed with thorns.
— Brooks
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power, that avarice makes as to wealth. She begins by accumulating it as a me…
— Charles Caleb Colton
Ambition is the rankest poison to the Church,when it possesses preschers. Itis a consuming tire.
— Luther
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
— Addison
