Quotes About Ambition

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thicksighted: thence proceeds mawkishness, and the thousand bitters which those men I speak of must necessarily taste in going over the following pages.

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

To the connected and ruthless flow the spoils. -From Counternarratives

It is your duty and responsibility to become successful,

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Such is life. Some days you wake up in Kansas, and some days in Oz. Sometimes the world feels pretty much stuck in place, and you've made your peace with that. Why waste time on silly pipe dreams, when there are socks to darn and pigs to feed? At other times, you look around and see how exciting the world can be, how flexible and arbitrary things are, how easy it might be to cast aside your old life and get to work building the one you really want.

ozurie feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have.

zielschmerz n. the dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you started up in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could.

Roger was not personally ambitious; he mainly wanted life not to make too many demands on him.

People with views of the Thames seemed always to be looking out, expecting more from the promise than the view would ever deliver.

He looked back at Troy – a bold, challenging eye-to-eye stare that Troy had often wished he possessed himself. If he could look like that he'd be the hard man of the Yard in no time.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

Max Byrd's Grant.

Everybody's a dreamer.

A dreamer lives forever, and a toiler dies in a day.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.