“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?” WayDoeMadeSoulLightLeftSidesCompanyDarknessAirAdventureSolitudeSkillsAmbitionBraveSurroundDaringCockpit Author:Charles Lindbergh
“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
“Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.” ThinkingChildrenWiseHonorAmbitionBraveGravesCradleBaitGilded Author:William Davenant
“A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.” PeopleGovernmentCausesCommonMoralPrinciplesInspireBecomingAmbitionConsciousDignityConstitutionBraveInspiredMannersGood ManSentimentsIntroducingSoberGood MannersElevationIndustriousFreemanGood HumorFrugalEmulationSociabilityGood MoralEnterprising Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I
“I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.” IfsThinkingWorldBelieveLittlesEnoughHappensI BelieveBitsAbilityImagineAmbitionLittle BitBraveDirtyBelieve In YourselfAmbitiousDirty Words Author:Reese Witherspoon
“Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.” IfsMenTryingStillsMatterDoneEnoughHandsEvilFatherConditionsSonBrotherTerribleAmbitionRaisesBraveBlowStrikesSublimeContinuitySimilarityAlphabetBrave Man Author:Saul Bellow
“Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.” ThinkingWiseAmbitionBraveMy Ambition Author:William Davenant
“Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date” NeedsFirstsLittlesBookEyeAgeAbleLastsReadingHalfWrittenJourneyReaderAmbitionPagesLaughterWindowBraveMemoirPsychologicalFallenDesperateImmigrantsWetAgonyTribesAngstRelishGaryTrademarksSpatsAnticsWet Eyes Author:Mary Karr