“Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ambition, is it a virtue or a vice? I believe that ambition is a virtue, but you decide for yourself. Pearl Baily said that kids should always remember that a person without ambition is a dead person; a person with ambition but without love is also a dead person, but a person with ambition and love is ever so alive. Such a person will one day lie down and rest without a worry in the world.
This is very true words, indeed. Willis Reed thought that we should aim for the moon, and if we don't reach it then we will still at least be heading for a star. We have to have ambition in our lives. You tell me, what will we strive for if we lack ambition? Lyndon Johnson, during a speech delivered in 1964, said:
“I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for”.
That was his ambition, and so every one of us should have some ambition to strive for. Even Lucky Luciano never wanted to be a crumb, he wished rather to be dead than being a mere crumb. In conceiving and believing it, we can achieve it; and it is not our aptitude but our attitude that will determine our altitude. I think that each one of us should not simply try to appear as the best, but actually, be the best we can. Your legacy should be: I made it better than it was than when I got it. Ask yourself then, to what extent are you ambitious? To what extent are you making the life you have, a better one?
Don’t be a crumb, be a bakery.
Some think that pursuing ambition
is a tiresome unattainable mission.
This is however not the case at all,
ambition will help you to attain your goal.
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