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 breast of every man and woman, especially the young man and the young woman. That was good advice of the great American philosopher, “Hitch your wagon to a star.” We all need the mighty and updrawing power of a lofty ambition.
– Harry T. Carley, The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA., February 27, 1911
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