A Quote by Pierre Corneille

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

Pierre Corneille

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Ambition Descend Having Reached Summit

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Pierre Corneille
French - Dramatist
June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684

Ambition becomes displeasing when it is once satiated; there is a reaction; and as our spirit, till our last sigh, is always aiming toward some object, it falls back on itself, having nothing else on which to rest; and having reached the summit, it longs to descend.

Pierre Corneille

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille

I have reached the summit of my ambition.

Andrew Johnson

It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.

Leonard Cohen

Ambition aspires to descend

Pierre Corneille

Ambition aspires to descend.

Pierre Corneille

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

Carlos Fuentes

And sometimes people say, 'Oh well, we all descend from Adam and Eve.' But do you descend from Charlemagne directly? Do you descend from Saint King Louis IX? I do.

Princess Michael of Kent

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

Charles Dickens

I had no sense of having reached some goal because I was an etoile at the Paris Opera. My ambition, if you can call it that, was to discover and learn and be excited by what I was doing. If I didn't have that, I would find it elsewhere.

Sylvie Guillem

When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you haven't read Shakespeare's Hamlet yet, it means that you haven't reached the summit of the literature yet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Gustav Mahler

We raised the matter of an agreement that was reached at the Growth and Development Summit, which was that we should access a certain part, 5% was mentioned, of the funds in the hands of the institutional investors, domestically, for investment in the real economy. That being an agreement of the Growth and Development Summit, we will engage South African business to see how we can make that a practical thing. So, there is a different set of engagement with local business.

Thabo Mbeki

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend.