Ambition Quote by E.A. Bucchianeri

“He took a deep breath. ‘To marry me,’ he said quietly. It was easier than he thought. Icarus did not fall from the sky;…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph" Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on, testing that strange little tug at his shoulder…

— Anne Sexton

“And, Mr. Knightley, forget my theory about Icarus. If you don't sail high, with the risk of crashing and burning, do you really live?…

— Katherine Reay

“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”

— Amie Kaufman

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.

— Benjamin Franklin

There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science…

— Anonymous

“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“... One that would have the fruit must climb the tree... Great hopes make great men... Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship...…

— Thomas Fuller

“My dreams and ambitions kept me company on the way there, and despair and regret were passengers on my return trip. I should have…

— Jarod Kintz

“He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles…

— Donna Tartt

“I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old seafaring men Came to me now and then,…

— Anonymous

“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude of the…

— Geraldine Brooks