Quotes about Ambition

The free school is the promoter of that intelligence which is to preserve us as a free nation. If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side—and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

To dare; that is the price of progress.

We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption.

Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue something higher- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.