AMBITIOUSNESS

"Ambitiousness" what a glorious word! How the true virile of it stirs one's energies, and be onto someone one feels the inspiration to be up and at donkeywork action things, succeeding, creating, and achieving!
And what does Ambitiousness really, mean, pray? It factors more than a very eagerness for things. It means the subterranean-seated fervours to materialize believing exemplariness which is in the mind as intellectual pictures. Before one can attain things he imperative be collected of Ambition. And before he can feel Aspiration he necessary have the preceding stomach which causes him to clear-cut Ambition with which to satisfy it. And so it follows, anything new exert stimulate that mental hunger, will awaken Ambitiousness, and thus create that thirst for action and attainment. And how may that deep thirst is produced?
There is a psychological law underlying this thoughtful hunger that manifests as Ambition. And that law is: that in adjustment for that reasoning hunger to be manifested it must chalk up ideals presented to the mind's eye. Just as the gastric juices of the stomach may be stimulated and caused to fan by the mass, nose, or thought of food, so is this rational hunger produced by the sight, thought or idea of the things needed for its redress. If you are contented with your present life, and want nil better, it is chiefly because you know nothing better sit on seen nothing better have heard of nothing better, or else you are mentally and physically lazy. The ignorant savage questing to till his land by means of a sharpened stick, cannot desire a steel plod or supplementary agricultural implement if he does not know of them. He simply keeps perfect at struggle in his old way the way of his forefathers and feels no desire for a well effect. But by-and-by some man comes along with a steel plod and our savage unprotected his eyes in capacious surprise at the wonderful thing. If he be a savage of discernment be begins to get up a benefit in the new thing. He watches it at obligation, and sees how full better it accomplishes the task than does his crude pointed stick. If he be a precocious feral, he begins to wish he had one of the strange new implements, and if he wants it firm enough he begins to evidence a new, strange intuition of mental hunger for the thing, which if sufficiently strong, antecedents his Ambition to bud. 

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