Quotes About Ambitions

Make all your journeys worthwhile, All your ambitions, priorities and all your dreams reality.

Understanding yourself is a step towards inner peace, and a step nearer achieving your unfulfilled ambitions.

Remove yourself from any situation that requires you to give up any one of these three things: 1) Who you are. 2) What you stand for. 3) The goals you aspire to achieve.

Who knows what the world would be like if we all kept our interests, talents, goals, and dreams alive.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

So T. S. Eliot's helpful reminder from "Gerontion": "History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, / Guides us by vanities.")

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

Everyone should have an evil secret plan.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

I think I will have a lot of opportunities in the future.

My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.

The ego can exist only with goals, ambitions, desires.

Match your goals with the people who can make them happen and start building the relationships

Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people's rights as well as their ambitions.

the success (or failure) of armies serving overseas had direct consequences on the home front; the political ambitions of men like Pompey and Caesar lay behind some of the wars of conquest; there was never any clear divide between the military and political roles of the Roman elite.

The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies

I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other talents, said yes to different offers.

El desapego es la fuerza tranquila de quien está decidido a no dejarse arrastrar por los pensamientos ni acaparar por toda clase de actividades y de ambiciones triviales, que devoran su tiempo y en definitiva solo aportan satisfacciones menores y efímeras.

The students lurked on the edges of their teachers' lives for years, and brought bulletins from their own lives, which over time began to include lovers, ambitions, an upward trajectory.

There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams," he said. "Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.

Criminals have the same aspirations as everyone else. That's why they become criminals.

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart to unhealthy ambitions.

Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest, we start and end with family.