AMBITION

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition
By that sin, fell the angels.
-Shakespeare

Who does the best his circumstance allows,
Does well, acts nobly,-angels could do no more.
-Young

I profess not talking; only this, let each man do his best.
-Shakespeare

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
-Gibbon

Men at some time are masters of their fates;
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
-Shakespeare

Hitch your wagon to a star.
-Emerson

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.
-Parkhurst

Degrees infinite of luster there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
-Ruskin

Every man who can be a first-rate something-as every man can be who is a man at all-has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is no better than a first-rate nothing.
-J.G. Holland

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus is honourable man.
-Shakespeare

I do not aspire to fame or glory;
I do not aim at rivaling others whose conditions, intelligence, and circumstances are different from mine.
-Rizal