Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow.
When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
Ambition aspires to descend.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.