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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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 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.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms,
Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,
Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, read more
The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!
On the summit see,
The seals of office glitter in his eyes;
He climbs, he pants, he read more
On the summit see,
The seals of office glitter in his eyes;
He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,
Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,
And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,
And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
