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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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.
But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high read more
But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last
To basest things.
Ambition has no rest!
Ambition has no rest!
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
I strike the stars with by sublime head.
[Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]
Big results require big ambitions.
Big results require big 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 can creep as well as soar.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
