Ambition is the mainspring to many noble deeds and to high achievement.  Show me a man from whose eyes has gone the light of ambition and from whose breast the desire to excel has departed, and I will show you a man who is content with the commonplace and whose life is to be measured in terms of the vanishing point. We all need more ambition, and we need to arouse it’s spark, if possible, in [...]

The greatest asset an individual can have is the spirit of progress.  Without it all else is largely in vain.  With it every good thing is possible.  What is the spirit of progress?  It is the desire to know what constitutes true success and the willingness to take the patient steps which lead to it; the desire to correct errors, traits and tendencies which retard progress and the willingness to [...]