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We grow small trying to be great.
We grow small trying to be great.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition never comes to an end.