Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Ambition You May Also Like Every man believes that he has a greater possibility. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Ambition There’s always room at the top. By Anonymus Ambition, Motivational, Positive, Success The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. By Nathaniel Hawthorne Ambition, Discontent, Happy, Restlessness, Uncomfortable Ambitious people don’t make excuses. By Anonymus Ambition, Motivational, Positive, Uplifting One often goes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love. By Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld Ambition, Love The treacheries of ambition never cease. By Ruben Dario Ambition You May Also Like from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Facts, Wisdom … there’s nothing that keeps its youth / So far as I know, but a tree and truth. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Truth, Youth A lecture ought to be something which all can understand, about something which interests everybody. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Public speaking, Wise 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 Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. . . . By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory, Old age, Youth The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor great scholars great men. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Achievement, Greatness, Scholars
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. By Nathaniel Hawthorne Ambition, Discontent, Happy, Restlessness, Uncomfortable
One often goes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love. By Francois, Due de La Rochefoucauld Ambition, Love
A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Facts, Wisdom
… there’s nothing that keeps its youth / So far as I know, but a tree and truth. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Truth, Youth
A lecture ought to be something which all can understand, about something which interests everybody. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Public speaking, Wise
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
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. . . . By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Memory, Old age, Youth
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor great scholars great men. By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Achievement, Greatness, Scholars
