Tag Archives: Ambition

West Coyote Hills

Posted on July 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

West Coyote Hillsby Michael DoyleI spent some time in Fullerton, hanging around.It’s there that West Coyote Hills can be found.We wondered bits and pieces during the day,And playing guitar at the Brea dam along the way.The advantage of staying simple … Continue reading →

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First Principles: All Courses of Action Are Risky, So Prudence Is Not In Avoiding Danger (It’s Impossible), But Calculating Risk and Acting Decisively

Posted on May 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Keep Away From People Who Try To Belittle Your Ambitions. Small People Always Do That, But the Really Great Make You Feel That You, Too, Can Become Great

Posted on May 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Ambition, Become Great, Belittle, Keep Away, Mark Twain, People, Small People, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

So Begins Hope

Posted on January 25, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

So Begins Hopeby Michael DoyleSo begins hope for a golden ageWe stand as we turn our pageVowing in integrity to quench our thirstStep by step, we’ll make America firstAs exceptional as America’s past successTruth in challenges is sought in testsAs … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambition, America, Assassin's Bullet, Bad Policies, Begin, Borders, Candid, Challenges, Compete, Compromise, Country, Dreams, Economy, Excepational, Fight, Free Speech and Thought, Furture, God's Glory, Golden Age, Greatest Danger, Honor, Honor and Promise, Hope, Inflation, Inihbiition, Integrity, Join Hands, Light, Make America First, Merit, Mortal Sin, Nurture, One Nation, Ongoing Tragedy, Pillar, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Quench Our Thrrst, Reach, Reclaim, Red White and Blue, Repair, Restoration, Safety and Freedom, Sense, Step By Step, Success, Test, Thoughts, Time, Trust, Truth, Truth and Justice, Wanton Crime | Leave a comment

What She Doesn’t Know Yet

Posted on November 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

What She Doesn’t Know Yetby Michael DoyleListening to my daughters proudlyAs they talk a bit too loudlyEach holding her own in conversationEach of them has their own ambitionsMy babies have grown up without regretBut I wish each would kindly not … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ambition, Angel-Shine, Apart, Babies, Beautiful, Behind, Blessing, Blossom and Grow, Borrowed Time, Childhoods, Choke Back A Tear, Conversation, Daughters, Depart, Done Well, Earth, Empty-Nesting, Falling Stars, Family, Far Above, Father, Father's Mind, Forget, Heart, Heartbreaks, Holding Her Own, Hope, Irrevocable Mistakes, Know, Last Breath, Lean, Lessons, Listen, Lost Love, Loud, Love, Lullabies, Memory, Miss, Most Wonderful, Poetry and Poems, Proud, Reflection, Regret, Remember, Same Love, She, Slow, Smile, Start, Talk, Thankful, Their Eyes, Their Love, These Girls, To the top, Warmest Connection, Watch, Well-Earned | Leave a comment

First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition. There Interest of the Man Must Be Connected With the Constitutional Rights of the Place

Posted on June 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Abuses of Government, Abuses of the Gvoernment, Ambition, Constitutional, Counteract, Device, First Principles, Human Nature, Interest, James Madison, Reflection | Leave a comment

First Principles: History By Apprising Citizens of the Past Will Enable Them To Judge of the Future

Posted on March 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care…To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exult Their Courage…If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

Posted on December 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: No Mound of Parchment Can Be So Formed As To Stand Against the Sweeping Torrent of Boundless Ambition

Posted on October 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“No mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.” – George Washington (1789)

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First Principles: Let Us Recollect That Peace or War Will Not Always Be Left To Our Option

Posted on July 15, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.” – Alexander Hamilton, … Continue reading →

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Ambition, Count, Extinguish, Federalist No. 34, First Principles, Hope, Left, Moderate, Moderation, Option, Peace, Recollect, Unambitious, War | Leave a comment