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Quotations It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. Paper-Research now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper. Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database. Letter "A" » Ambition "Ambition has no rest!" Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton About: Ambition "When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to the second or even the third rank. [Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis, tertiisque consistere.]" Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) About: Ambition "On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!" Author: Eliza Cook About: Ambition "By low ambition and the thirst of praise." Author: William Cowper About: Ambition "On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down, And wins them, but to lose them in his turn." Author: William Cowper About: Ambition "The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.]" Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri") About: Ambition "But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land." Author: John Dryden About: Ambition "Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down." Author: John Dryden About: Ambition "If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all." Author: Elizabeth I About: Ambition "They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem." Author: Oliver Goldsmith About: Ambition Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next » Instant Account Activation. Register Now. |