Time is the only critic without ambition.
- Topic: Ambition, Time
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
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It is stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.