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We grow small trying to be great.
We grow small trying to be great.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and read more
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive 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.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by read more
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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 last refuge of failure.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Ambition never comes to an end.
Ambition never comes to an end.
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be read more
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,
May hope to achieve it before life be done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes,
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
