To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every act of virtue is an ingredient unto reward.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.
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