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“The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.”

Men May Long Has Beens Eye Suffering Generations Tears Ambition Wipe Our Generation Greatest Man

Book:Sept. 1964-May 1949

Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949

“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."”

People Country Wise Failing Generations Dangerous Cry Pride Prove Ambition Dignity Institutions Selfish Our Country Secure Welfare Schemes Mock Deceptive True Patriotism False Pride

Author:Carl Schurz

“Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.”

“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.”

Source: An American Son: A Memoir

“I have no ambition for what society says is important as far as things like money, and all that kind of stuff. What I am ambitious about is I want to be the best wrestler that I can possibly be, and I think there's some sort of mistake in generations, as far as what he thinks as far as our generation lacking ambition.”

Thinking Want Kind I Can Important Stuff Mistake Generations Ambition Being The Best Ambitious Lacking Our Generation Wrestler

Author:Daniel Bryan

“I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.”

Needs Firsts Art Enough Home Culture Left Generations Land Fame Ambition Fortune Wide Deliberate Australian My Generation

Book:Boyer Lectures 2011

Source: Boyer Lectures 2011

“I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.”

Trying Two Bigs Three Next Behinds Generations Influence Mines Ambition Next Generation Three Generations

Author:James Frey

“The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.”

People Thinking World Trying Children Made I Can Real Seems Wanted Remember Term Loss Generations Effects Example Ambition Slavery Hearing Gravity Posterity Seriousness

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give something to their country. I just hope, for young people of this generation, that they'll experience that feeling once again, that by working on large goals, they can do something more than their own individual ambition.”

People Giving Feels Country Feelings Wanted Young Individual Goal Can Do Generations One Thing Ambition Can Do Something This Generation John Kennedy

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.”

Form Effort Generations Activity Ambition Festivals Threshold Manifold Impassioned

Author:Pierre de Coubertin

“The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to their children - their unfulfilled desires, their incomplete ambitions. In this way diseases pass on from one generation to another.”

Way Giving Children Whole Desire Parent Generations Goes On Disease Ambition Blame Destroyed Heritage Ambitious Incomplete Unfulfilled Desires

Author:Rajneesh

“Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.”

Humans Generations Human Nature Ambition Perfection Prejudice Injustice Selfishness

Book:Addresses on International Subjects

Source: Addresses on International Subjects

“So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.”

Men World Long Goal Hours Dark Views Pay Attention Generations Example He Man Letting Go Ambition Highest Ideals Determination Praise Determined Get Up Persistence Dark Hours

Book:The Optimist Creed

Source: The Optimist Creed