Learn Through Quotations

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: hence proceeds mawkishness. ”

“Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.”

“Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.”

“The ripest peach is highest on the tree.”

“Asking is begining of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.”

“All Ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”

“The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.”

“Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.”

“I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.”

“Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.”

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”

“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”

“As in nature, things move violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.”

“Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.”

“Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.”

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”

“The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.”

“You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.”

“Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.”

“Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood and will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we are gone will be a living thing.”