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Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Ambition has no rest!
Ambition has no rest!
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, read more
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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.
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
