Quotes About Ambition

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can't find them, make them.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Selama masih memiliki keinginan, saya mempunyai alasan untuk hidup.

Ves cosas y dices, ¿por qué? Pero yo sueño cosas que nunca fueron y digo, ¿por qué no?.

Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?

As pessoas estão sempre culpando as circunstâncias pelo que elas são. Eu não acredito em circunstâncias. Os indivíduos que progridem neste mundo são aqueles que se mexem e procuram as circunstâncias que querem, e, se não conseguem encontrá-las, eles as criam.

Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find. them, make them

The outbreak of war in 1792 offered enticing opportunities to attain longstanding

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share.

I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

It's called the 'American dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth and the desirable things for which it stands. To secure wealth quickly youth often borrows unwisely

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

Hans: [Y]ou can't conceive what a great fellow I'm going to be. The seed of immortality has sprouted within me. Deronda: Only a fungoid growth, I daresay - a crowing disease in the lungs.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

He loved also to think, I did it! And I believe the only people who are free from that weakness are those who have no work to call their own.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

There is no sorrow I have thought about more than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an 'appointment') which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?