High seats are never but uneasy, and crowns are always stuffed with thorns.
— Brooks
High positions of power bring unease and hidden suffering, not comfort.
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When Steven Jobs and Steven Wozniak began putting together the executive team for Apple Computers, their strategy was to…
— Steven Jobs
Ambition is the rankest poison to the Church,when it possesses preschers. Itis a consuming tire.
— Luther
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power, that avarice makes as to wealth. She begins by accumulating it as a me…
— Charles Caleb Colton
In one of the best-known Lincoln stories we are told that a man, seeing young Lincoln intently reading a book, said, “He…
— Lincoln
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
— Addison
The Syrian Semiramis was a poor wench, kept by one of Ninus’ slaveg, till Ninus meeting herand taking a fancy to her, at…
— Plutarch
