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Letter "A" » Ambition
«It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.»
«It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.»
«I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.»
«It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.»
Author: Robert Southey (Poet, Writer) | About: Ambition, Hope | Keywords: aspirations, quenched, sparks
«It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.»
«It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me»
Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | About: Ambition | Keywords: administer
«I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your v»
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.»
«It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books»
«It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it»
Author: Seneca | About: Ambition, Faults | Keywords: inseparable

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