It's very easy to be told and to see things in society that you feel you must do things like going out and pursuing business, becoming successful financially, getting ahead things like this.
" Well, yes, " she added more hopefully, " I have been thinking that you might get on as a schoolmaster, and rise that way, since you really are determined to hate the course you were pursuing."
" There's some notion that because I was abandoned, I worked very hard so I could do well and make my parents wish they had me back, or some such nonsense, but that's ridiculous, " he insisted.
My dear girls, I am ambitious for you, but not to have you make a dash in the world, marry rich men merely because they are rich, or have splendid houses, which are not homes because love is wanting.
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We've been talking about humble leadership for years now, but it still sometimes feels like the most arrogant and ambitious people are the ones getting ahead.