"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us,..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Trouble Springs From Idleness.”

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“The world is run by the people who show up.”

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.”

“Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.”

“Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?”

“It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.”

“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”