Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.