Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Ambition
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Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
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An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
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