Quotes About Ambition

is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests:

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Towards the throne they all strive: it is their madness—as if happiness sat on the throne! Ofttimes sitteth filth on the throne.—and ofttimes also the throne on filth.

the way the Americans strive for gold; and their breathless haste in working - the true vice of the new world.

I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

Success has always been a great liar

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it! - Eleanor Roosevelt Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.- -John Ruskin Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

His longterm aspirations were not a subject upon which he allowed himself to dwell. Not because they were in any way bad or bizarre, but because he had come to realize he didn't have any. Nothing specific anyway. He'd never pictured himself as anything in particular. Just a situation where he made enough money doing something... anything... enough to have whatever he wanted. A nice new Dodge pickup. A boat or maybe a little house someplace. The kind of things people wanted.

Los adolescentes de mi generación avorazados por la vida olvidaron en cuerpo y alma las ilusiones del por venir.

Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.

smart woman can do very well in this country. —A young woman in nineteenth-century California

He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or very stupid.

Her physical and emotional experiences, which thwarted these ambitions, were powerful but not unique. Many people suffer from illness, accidents, a bad marriage and divorce. It was Kahlo's responses to the experiences of her life, rather than the experiences themselves, combined with her rare talent for articulating them visually and giving meaning to them that distinguish Kahlo as a towering cultural figure.

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

I think about what I've accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I'm accomplishing my goals.

Ah, political physics. Someone wins an election and, poof, they are a candidate for vice president. Ridiculous.

I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

I look at that 10 PGA Tour wins, and I say to myself, 'That's not enough,' and it isn't enough for me. It's just 10. I want more than 10.

In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.

Goals can help lift me to be one of the best two or three in the world, most definitely. You score the goal that wins the football match five, six, seven times a season: you are one of the best in the world. And that's what I need to do. I need to keep being consistent.

You wanna work on something big so that if you win, everybody wins, and you really have an impact on the world. And that can get you out of bed.