Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?
Félix J. PalmaTags: war ambition funny excitement humorous boredom child-labor
Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.
William ShakespeareTags: happiness power ambition class
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant McGillDo not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant McGillTags: success ambition simplicity failure accomplishments
Money as the sole ambition has no value.
Habeeb AkandeTags: money wealth ambition value purpose-of-life
Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books, and you get a bookshelf-warping total of twenty-eight million books available for an English reader in the next fifty years! But you can read only 2,600 - because you are a wildly ambitious book devourer. ... For every one book that you choose to read, you must ignore ten thousand other books simply because you don't have the time (or money!).
Tony ReinkeTags: goals reading books ambition limitations
The only way the weight of the world can break you down, is if you carry it the wrong way.
Lionel SuggsTags: ambition weight-of-glory
People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'"
[What It Is (2009)]
Tags: life goals ambition realism dylan-moran
A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]
Kresley ColeTags: humor ambition philosophical-musings
My ambition is not to leave behind me a pile of money for my heirs to quarrel about, but to find out what there is of interest in this world before I cross the border and begin to explore the other world.
George Hughes HepworthTags: ambition exploration inheritance
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