Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Ambition You May Also Like Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. By Ann Landers Ambition, Daily quotes, Funny, Inspirational, Motivational As he was valiant, I honor him; but as he was ambitious, I slew him. By William Shakespeare Ambition A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. By Samuel Johnson Ambition Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame. By Baltasar Gracian Ambition Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. By William K. Vanderbilt Ambition, Happiness, Rich, Wealth Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. By Arthur Schopenhauer Ambition, Objectivity, Will You May Also Like from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor great scholars great men. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Achievement, Greatness, Scholars If you mean to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health, the better. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Health Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Funny, Thinking, Thought … there’s nothing that keeps its youth / So far as I know, but a tree and truth. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Truth, Youth Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. . . . By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory, Old age, Youth
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. By Ann Landers Ambition, Daily quotes, Funny, Inspirational, Motivational
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. By Samuel Johnson Ambition
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another’s fame. By Baltasar Gracian Ambition
Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. By William K. Vanderbilt Ambition, Happiness, Rich, Wealth
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. By Arthur Schopenhauer Ambition, Objectivity, Will
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor great scholars great men. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Achievement, Greatness, Scholars
If you mean to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health, the better. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Health
Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Funny, Thinking, Thought
… there’s nothing that keeps its youth / So far as I know, but a tree and truth. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Truth, Youth
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. . . . By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory, Old age, Youth
