12.08.06
Ambition Quote
Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
–John Webster
Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind,
And weave but nets to catch the wind.
–John Webster
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
–Robert Half
We only do well the things we like doing.
Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
Join the Famous Quotes Mailing ListI do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your
hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you
choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.”
-Carl Schurz
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray
twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
-Teddy Roosevelt
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