"Without ambition no conquests are made, and no business created. Ambition is the root of all achievement."

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James A. Champy

#Graduation Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Roots Quotes

“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
“There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.”

Source : "Democracy Unbound: Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System". Book by David B. Reynolds, 1997.
“David Eckman is a man you can trust... His teaching resonates with God's wisdom and compassion”
“The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly”
“While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses,”
“Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.”

Source : FaceBook post by Isaac Mizrahi from Apr 18, 2011
“To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.40, eKitap Projesi
“Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.10, Canongate Books

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