ambition

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

When that the poor have cried Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!

When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ambition destroys its possessor.