“Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to fill up the gaps in human relationships made by international ambitions and greeds ... War will pass when intellectual culture and activity have made possible to the female an equal share in the governance of modern national life; it will probably not pass away much sooner; its extinction will not be delayed much longer.” MenHumansArtMadeWarBodyCultureGivenShareModernActivityEqualAmbitionIntellectualFemaleGreedInternationalWorks Of ArtGapsExtinctionGovernancePassing AwayHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDelayed Author:Olive Schreiner
“Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.” SoulTogetherFoundActivityAmbitionCreditModerationIndolenceArdor Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.” MenCertainChanceCourageVirtueActivityAmbitionBraveVariousPurityChastityChasteAssemblage Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.” SoulActivityAmbitionWarmthModerationSloth Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” IfsShouldMindChildrenCareSufferingCompassionVirtueMinesIndustryActivityAmbitionCapacityOur ChildrenInjusticeFacultyContemptCreepsInfancyHabitualMeannessInhumanityAccelerateAbhorrence Book:The Letters of John and Abigail Adams Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.” LittlesSelfFeelingsReligiousCommonEmotionBrainActivityAmbitionRegardCeaseThese DaysIntimateLove LifeSentimentsOur ThoughtsOur LoveRichnessSpecksJellyCommon Knowledge Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
“If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.” IfsWantHappensMotivationalActionMotivationHopeGoalEffortActivityAmbitionAccomplishMartial ArtsFitnessMake It HappenAnything In Life Author:Chuck Norris
“Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passions; love is an action, the practice of human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as a result of compulsion. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.” WayLifeGivingHumansKindCharacterActionFallPassionLove IsResultsPracticeActivityAmbitionStandingGreedActiveEnvyReceivingPassiveCompulsionLove PassionHuman PowerGiving Not Receiving Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.” FormEffortGenerationsActivityAmbitionFestivalsThresholdManifoldImpassioned Author:Pierre de Coubertin
“When ambition enters, creativity disappears - because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future - and a creative person is always in the present.” ThinkingMenWritingPersonsCreativityNovelCreativePaintingActivityAmbitionSakeDisappearPrizeAmbitiousBe CreativeNobelNobel PrizeCreative PersonLooking AheadAmbitious Man Author:Rajneesh
“Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.” LittlesEnergyActivityAmbitionUnhappyUrgesGreat Ambition Author:Norm MacDonald