Friday, April 23, 2010

Ambition

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings - C. Archie Danielson

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory - Herbert Kaufman

Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great - Mark Twain

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now - Mildred McAfee

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition - Terry Josephson

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Conscience

Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort - Bert Murray

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

To expect to rule others by assuming a loud tone is like thinking oneself tall by putting on high heels - J. Petit-Senn

The wheel that squeaks the loudest Is the one that gets the grease - Josh Billings

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits - William Hazlitt