A Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Love, a pleasant folly; ambition, a serious stupidity.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Ambition Folly Love Pleasant Serious Stupidity

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Nicolas Chamfort
French - Writer
April 6, 1741 - April 13, 1794

We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.

Rajneesh

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

David Lipsky

The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

William C. Brown

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Robert Greene

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed, Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss.

Friedrich Schiller

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

Robert Greene

Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

Panayiotis Zavos

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

Ann Beattie

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

Frank Lowy

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.