Ambition is the golden mean between sloth and greed.

Ambition is overrated — Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.

Ambition is like hunger : it obeys no law but its appetite.

Ambition is most aroused by the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Commitment is requisite to real living — If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Commitment is at the heart of personhood. An uncommitted person is not person at all.

Commitment is the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Courage lies between cowardice and recklessness.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Courage is important — never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be

Decision is unavoidable. Even to hesitate, one has to decide.

Decision is the eternal protest against fictions.

A Decision is a decision because it can never be wholly justified.

The Decision is a moment equal to a moment of madness.