Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage read more

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on
his ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make
them.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make
them.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to read more

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness read more

Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitations are what human nature habitually abhors; while on the contrary, haze, mist, and the haunting spirits of the mountains are what human nature seeks, and yet can rarely find.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize read more

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.

Profitability doesn't happen when you're walking on bullshit.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was
promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was
promptly drummed out of us in first grade.