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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to
the second or even the third rank.
[Lat., Prima enim sequentem, honestumn est in secundis,
tertiisque consistere.]
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to read more
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
By low ambition and the thirst of praise.
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.
For all may have,
If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
For all may have,
If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm
heaven itself in our folly.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm
heaven itself in our folly.
[Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est:
Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]
Ambition has no rest!
Ambition has no rest!