Quotes About Ambition

Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.

An intelligent, reasonable man in most cases has nothing to fear from women. You must beware of two things. Number one and most dangerous: the damsel in distress. Two: a woman who has more ambition than you do.

Every man measures his own greed.

Yo no quería creer que hubiera traicionado a su compañero de toda la vida. Bueno, la política es eso, abrirse camino entre cadáveres.

Yo también creía que por París uno podía hacer todos los sacrificios.

Julieta nunca lo decepcionó. Era una periodista nata y de su misma estirpe, capaz de matar a su madre por una primicia, sobre todo si era sucia y escabrosa.

This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of seizing glory any way they ca, even if to reach it they must climb a mountain of pachydermatous shit.

Ser cosmopolita no significa ser indiferente a un país, y ser sensible a otros, no. Significa la generosa ambición de querer ser sensible a todos los países y a todas las épocas, el deseo de eternidad…».

Yo no quería creer que hubiera traicionado a su compañero de toda la vida. Bueno, la política es eso, abrirse camino entre cadáveres. —El

Valía la pena, papá? ¿Era por la ilusión de estar disfrutando del poder? A veces pienso que no, que medrar era lo secundario. Que, en verdad, a ti, a Arala, a Pichardo, a Chirinos, a Álvarez Pina, a Manuel Alfonso, les gustaba ensuciarse. Que Trujillo les sacó del fondo del alma una vocación masoquista, de seres que necesitaban ser escupidos, maltratados, que sintiéndose abyectos se realizaban. El

Vale la pena leer con cuidado esta cita juvenil; contiene tres elementos precoces de su teoría de la novela: (1) que el escritor se sirve sin escrúpulos de toda la realidad; (2) la ambición totalizadora y (3) la idea de que la novela debe mostrar, no juzgar: «Il

Besides, what Dominican woman wouldn't like to be the First Lady?

Don't ask for the moon -- we have the stars! Pardon my saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!

Always live your life with your biography in mind, Dad was fond of saying. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

Grab the work when it comes, my man. Your competition is now a fourteen-year-old in pajamas with the username Truth-ninja-12 who believes fact-checking a story is reading his subject's Twitter feed. Be afraid.

This is New York. If people found out worshipping the devil actually worked, every ambitious type A would be practicing it in their studio apartments.

Always life your life with your biography in mind. Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a magnificent reason, but at the very least you'll be living grandly.

Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

Once you slaughter the lamb, you are capable of everything and anything, and the world is yours.

if my dad put half the energy he did into cutting corners into just driving around the corner, he'd be a billionaire.

I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.

What sets lion chasers apart isn't the outcome. It's the courage to chase God-sized dreams.

Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

I will get a First Class Honors degree and I will become a scientist... And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.