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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (cha
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
Charles Dickens
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Herbert N. Casson
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
Aristotle
Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
Susan Sontag
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts.
Ruth Gordon
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Thomas Dunn English
So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
Jean de la Bruyere
No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
Oliver Cromwell
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Charles Caleb Colton
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
Ray Bradbury
