#bit

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#bitter #fruit #sweet

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ambition #brave #caring #devotion #victory

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#ambition

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. ↗

— Jim Henson

#been #better #difference #having #hope

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. ↗

— Roman Payne

#desire #health #ill #illness #sickness

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#america #fame #fame

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#ambition

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#macbeth #shakespeare #ambition

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#compromise #ambition

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#ambition