It is a good idea to be ambitious to have goals to want to be good at what you do but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
Driven from every corner of the earth freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
But America is a great unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened that all may keep an even Pace.
I have made a plan for my life as I am in my teens and no more a child. I am old for my age and dont care much for girls things. People think Im wild and queer; but mother understands and helps me. I have not told anyone about my plans but I am going to be good…. Now Im going to work really for I feel a desire to improve and be a help and comfort not a care and sorrow to my dear mother.
Children you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle bustle bustle and rush rush rush we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows just waiting.
America has believed that in differentiation not in uniformity lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness and it has prospered.
There is America which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners yet shall before you taste of death show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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 very being and seems to make the days work like a happy child at play.
Ah but a mans reach should exceed his grasp Or whats a heaven for?
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
What a pity when Christopher Columbus discovered America that he ever mentioned it.
The slave has but one master the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.
Ambition is like love impatient both of delays and rivals.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
Ambition – A lust that is never quenched grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of Ambition that it never looks behind it.
Men of few words are the best men.
It is a good idea to be ambitious to have goals to want to be good at what you do but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
Ambition is an idol on whose wings Great minds are carried only to extreme; To be sublimely great or to be nothing.
Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.
They build too low who build beneath the skies.
America is God?s Crucible the greatest Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! … God is making the American.
Driven from every corner of the earth freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.
But America is a great unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened that all may keep an even Pace.
I have made a plan for my life as I am in my teens and no more a child. I am old for my age and dont care much for girls things. People think Im wild and queer; but mother understands and helps me. I have not told anyone about my plans but I am going to be good…. Now Im going to work really for I feel a desire to improve and be a help and comfort not a care and sorrow to my dear mother.
It was we the people; not we the white male citizens; nor yet we the male citizens; but we the whole people who formed the Union.
What a pity when Christopher Colombus discovered America that he ever mentioned it.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball the rules and realities of the game.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Children you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
America! half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle bustle bustle and rush rush rush we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows just waiting.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
UN-AMERICAN adj. Wicked intolerable heathenish.
I have no use for adventures. Theyre nasty disturbing things that make you late for dinner.
America has believed that in differentiation not in uniformity lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness and it has prospered.
There is America which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners yet shall before you taste of death show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
I will never apologize for the United States of America I dont care what the facts are. Said after Vincennes shot down an Iranian Airliner.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
The Americans will always do the right thing … after theyve exhausted all the alternatives.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we have been taught.
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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 very being and seems to make the days work like a happy child at play.
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Slight not whats near when aiming at whats far.
Americas one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
Ideals are the incentive payment of practical men. The opportunity to strive for them is the currency that has enriched America through the centuries.
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself and yearns for the impossible.
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable.