"The thrust of ambition is, and always has……" — Louis Kronenberger
"The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry."
—
Louis Kronenberger
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
58 Quotes by Louis Kronenberger
Louis Kronenberger has 58 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so…
-
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American…
-
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or…
-
True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps…
-
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own,…
-
Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria,…
-
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a…
-
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive…
-
From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish…
-
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied…
-
Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
-
The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has…
See all 58 quotes by Louis Kronenberger »
More Adventurous Quotes
This quote is filed under Adventurous Quotes,
one of 173 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
-
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into…
— Taylor Caldwell
-
I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a…
— Sherman Alexie
-
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
— Isabel Allende
-
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is…
— Alan Cohen
-
More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
-
The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of…
— Agnes Martin
-
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We…
— Guy Laliberte
-
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political…
— George Ellery Hale
-
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that…
— Unknown Author
-
The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions -…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of…
— Alfred North Whitehead
See all 173 Adventurous Quotes »