Ambition Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.

— Basil Moreau

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.

— Vincent de Paul

We afflict the ones below us by only monitoring our success and the need to thrive even more.

— Simon Quperlier

Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner…

— Martha Beck

If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when…

— John Newton

“Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We…

— Rachel Carson

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform…

— Mikhail Bakunin

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

— Jane Goodall

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.

— Learned Hand

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps…

— Edmund Burke

“Every time we have a thought...it affects our world in either a negative or positive way. Help brighten humanity with positive, loving, peaceful thoughts.”

— Timothy Pina