Ambition Quote by Robert Burton

Just as a bird cannot fly without wings, one cannot succeed without being motivated.

— Rashida Rowe

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

— Mark Driscoll

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and…

— Anonymous

“The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters…

— Hal Borland

“…Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit reproduction in…

— Margaret Atwood

“There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other’s company in inferior and dying trees.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a…

— Jonathan Swift

“We make our journey in the company of others; the deer, the rabbit, the bison, and the quail walk before us, and the lion,…

— Daniel Quinn

Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year's nest from which the birds have flown

— Henry Ward Beecher

The longer it possesseth a man the more he will delight in it, and the older he groweth the more he shall be subject…

— Walter Raleigh

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

— Peter Abelard