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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
No steps backward.
[Lat., Vestigia nulla retrorsum.]
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.
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.
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring read more
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
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.
