Beware ambition; heaven is not reached with pride, but with submission.
—Thomas Middleton
Showing posts with label ambition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ambition. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Post #2434
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
—Sir W. Scott
—Sir W. Scott
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Post #2428
In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.
—Jean de La Bruyère
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Post #1479
To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.
—Ovid
—Ovid
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Post #1068
When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns; the first negro minstrel show that came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life; now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be a steamboatman always remained.
—Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
—Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
Monday, August 27, 2012
Saturday, April 07, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Post #866
Every private in the army carries a field marshal's baton in his knapsack.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Post #693
I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
—Walter Cronkite
—Walter Cronkite
Monday, June 28, 2010
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- Dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
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