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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy read more
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem
Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to read more
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to read more
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
The great refusal.
[It., Il gran rifiuto.]
The great refusal.
[It., Il gran rifiuto.]
