Quotes About Ambition

Het leven van een man die vliegen wil, bestaat vooral uit vallen

Een droom dat je niet toetst, wordt een desillusie

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

Nobody dast blame this man. For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can't I say that, Willy?

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.

And, in the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.

I might be the child abandoned on the wharf setting out for the high seas, or the farmhand, following the path whose top reaches the sky.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Ale je?li próba samobójcza ko?czy si? niepowodzeniem, nie zawsze musi to oznacza? najtragiczniejsz? rzecz na ?wiecie. Przecie? nie wszystko cz?owiekowi si? udaje.

Así podrá instruirse y estudiar leyes para sangrar de su último maravedí a los pleiteantes; como hacen vuestras mercedes los abogados, escribanos y otras gentes de mal vivir.

a usté uno que la hizo.

Ahí se explican muchos males de la España de entonces y de la futura, cuya clave quizá esté en la muy española carta que el loco y criminal conquistador Lope de Aguirre le dirigió a Felipe II poco antes de morir ejecutado: Mira que no puedes llevar con título de rey justo ningún interés destas partes donde no aventuraste nada, sin que primero los que en esta tierra han trabajado y sudado sean gratificados.

A ellos, españoles de lenguas y tierras diferentes entre sí, pero solidarios en la ambición, la soberbia y el sufrimiento, y no a los figurones retratados en primer término del lienzo, era a quien el holandés entregaba su maldita llave.

Una vez me dijiste algo —recordó él—. «Me gusta que hagas lo que otros se resignan a soñar.»

Todo ese esfuerzo, todo ese empeño, todo ese riesgo, para satisfacer un deseo tan mezquino. ?El tamaño de una satisfacción no lo puede medir sino el que la alcanza.

You would be surprised. There are people whose sense of identity at the end of life doesn't go beyond: I own this house; earn so much; have four children; drive this car; have so much in the bank and so on. Maybe such identity is not enough for you.

I represent the kids who come from nothing but who understand it all and love it all. That's what I represent - those are the cool kids, you know, the kids of tomorrow, because who would've known that I'd be who I am today? We are the kids of tomorrow.

Make dreams of your future without closing an eye, when you wake up plan for it walk towards and see how bright it will be.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target