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If you can't go over it go through it
V ater to your ambition, for it gives zest to your life and purpose to your endeavours. Ambition quickens the pulse and ennobles the imagination; talents burn brightest after ambition has furnished the spark to set them aflame.
Ambition inspires the poet, the soldier, the scientist; imbued with it, they regard defeats but temporary setbacks. and go on trying again. Ambition is at the root of all human progress; it is the power which drives men forword, because it instils into them the hope for a happier future.
The man who succeeds has a program : he fixes his course, and adheres to it; he lays his plans, and executes them; he goes straight to his goal. He is not pushed this side and that side and that every time a difficulty is thrust in his way, if he can't go over it, he goes through it. “Kites rise highest against the wind- not with it," said Churchill.
Singleness of aim by no means necessitates monotony of action; but if we would be felt on this stirring planet, if we would strike the world with lasting force, we must be men of one thing. Having found out the thing we have to do, we must throw into it all the energies of our being, seeking its accomplishment at whatever hazard or sacrifice.
The man of concentration of purpose is never a dissipated man in any sense, good or bad. He has no time to devote to useless trifling of any kind, but puts in as many strokes of faithful work as possible towards the attainment of some definite goal.
Is it anything surprising that those who aim at nothing, accomplish nothing ?
— Tom Hopkins
