Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Ambition, Successful

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.140

• Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Ambitious, Kingdoms

• Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Keys, Voice

• An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Progress, Aim

• Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Heart, Ambition, Division

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.40

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