Quotes About Ambition

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won.

Her eyes astar with dreams

You never can tell what you can do till you try.

If I was wicked I meant to be wicked to some purpose.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting

Tears of disappointment would come in spite of myself, as I crept away to hide poor, crumpled manuscript in the depths of my trunk. Deep down under all the discouragement and rebuff, I knew I would arrive there someday.

The Alpine path, so hard, so steep, That leads to heights sublime.

Quando si usa l'immaginazione, tanto vale pensare in grande

It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled, we would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

I ought to have ... become a star in the sky. Instead of which I have remained stuck on earth.

I should have liked to produce a good book. It has not turned out that way, but the time is past in which I could improve it.

I had no particular purpose in mind, which was never a good way to do things.

What you needed more than anything, for the purposes of ambition, was certainty, was a belief that the rest of being, the entirety of the cosmos, should not be allowed to penetrate and divert you from the cause--the chief and primary cause, which was, clearly, yourself.

There will always be people who are better off or who get good jobs or who marry well- whatever that means. We should be happy with what we've got.

in the air. She'd

her own boss. When she thought about all that, was the

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

Tell me," said Miss Fuller, "who is behind a great woman?" She looked around our circle, then stopped at me. "That's right. No one. She has to get there by herself.

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself.

a barnacle on the yacht of prosperity