A young man without proverb

 A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

 I don't know many ambition-ridden people who really enjoy themselves. Even success doesn't seem to still the insatiable, gnawing hunger of their ambition. Ambition is a good gift, but it cannot be all.
  Loretta Young

 This city will be wide open for young people with a pioneering spirit and ambition. This city is going to boom. It is a golden opportunity for the young person.

 My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

 Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

 This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
  Clara Barton

 This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers. Pex Tufvesson is called Mahoney in the demo world. This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
  Clara Barton

 You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
  James Weldon Johnson

 a step in the right direction for pretty young things with big voices and ample ambition.

 Obviously, he has some closure, because he's been waiting for the phone to ring, but we've also got to get him some help. (Collins) is a brilliant young man who's gonna graduate in three years. But he's still a 19-year-old young man that's lost his father.

 The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

 I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
  Eden Phillpotts

 I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

 “It is mysterious that the ambition should have come first - the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame - and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.”
  V. S. Naipaul

 A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
  Samuel Johnson


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