We grow small trying to be great. You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
Too low they build who build below the skies. The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. William Shakespeare A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. Niccol Machiavelli He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.