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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make read more
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
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.
