Unjustified ambition kills value,
Kills someone else's desire to fly,
Cuts their wings, sucks their air.
If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.
Stichwörter: wisdom life poetry ambition literature wings desire quotes thoughts air fly poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way.
Habeeb AkandeStichwörter: motivational inspirational success ambition self-improvement
If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up.
Habeeb AkandeStichwörter: motivational inspirational-quotes ambition
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
Erwin Raphael McManusStichwörter: ambition
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.
Habeeb AkandeStichwörter: success ambition determination failure excuses perserverance
I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
William ShakespeareStichwörter: ambition
From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views.
- Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic
Stichwörter: writing ambition failure authorship rejection
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: ambition pride faust marlowe christopher-marlowe faustus faust-legend faustian icarus
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
D.H. LawrenceStichwörter: ambition
This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy, hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing he could do really well, was to inherit money.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: ambition the-feudal-spirit the-peter-principle
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