William Clark famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.
-- William Clark

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Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.
-- William Clark

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That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.
The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("Ã©tant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

William Clark famous quotes

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