A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.
- Jean La Bruyere
O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil!
- William Havard
Ambition: The glorious frailty of the noble mind.
- Hoole
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
- Samuel Johnson
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
- Baltasar Gracian
Accurst ambition, how dearly I have bought you.
- John Dryden
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- Thomas English
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
- Robert Burton
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
- Denham
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
- Anonymous
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
- Herbert George Wells
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry Truman
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made
- Sophocles
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
- Bion
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
- Sophocles
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
- Bible
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
- William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
- William Shakespeare
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
- Seneca
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
- Seneca
Light troubles speak, The weighty are struck dumb.
- Seneca