Quotes About Ambition

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,as in what direction we are moving.To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the windand sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor

The energetic and successful man is the one who succeeds in transforming the fantasies of desire into reality.

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador — an adventurer, if you want it translated — with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.

She was so New York. And in her boosterism, in her energy and ambition, in her can-do, beat-whatever-the-odds spirit, in her childlike nature—and in her belief in her exceptionalism and in the power of her own will, in self-creation, and in the possibility of being reborn, the possibility of endless new chances, and of having it all—she was also the most American person I knew.

Women are dangerous, they stop at nothing and they never let go.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

doing well at the things she wants to do well at.

Any work, whatever its genre or perspective, can only be fairly judged by the goals it sets for itself.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

all success cloaks a surrender

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely 'sublimations'; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.

Gozar de las cosas bellas le basta; acepta el lujo y la vida fácil, le gusta la felicidad. Yo necesito una vida devoradora. Necesito obrar, gastarme, realizarme, necesito un fin que alcanzar, dificultades que vencer, una obra que cumplir. No estoy hecha para el lujo. Nunca podrá satisfacerme lo que le satisface.

The passionate man seeks possession; he seeks to attain being. The failure and the hell which he creates for himself have been described often enough. He causes certain rare treasures to appear in the world, but he also

Making money does not seem to me a very elevating ambition

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito

Mie imi trebuie o viata devotata. Am nevoie sa actionez, sa ma agit, sa creez; am nevoie de un tel pe care sa-l ating, de greutati de invins, de o opera de realizat. Nu sunt facuta pentru lux.

Paule n'en pas à une contradiction près, mais celle-ci agaçait particulièrement Henri : elle le voulait le plus glorieux de tous les hommes, et elle affectait de mépriser la gloire ; c'est qu'elle s'entêtait à se rêver telle qu'il l'avait rêvée, jadis : hautaine, sublime ; et en même temps, bien sûr, elle vivait sur terre, comme tout le monde.

Recordemos que el hombre es trascendencia; lo que reclama, no lo reclama sino para superarlo.

Pero nuestros actos no esperan ser llamados; saltan hacia un porvenir que no está prefigurado en ninguna parte.

All mediocrity flies from the light.

Go back to the school in which you will make progress in being a Christian. Study your lessons, settle the issue of ambition, make Christ your preoccupation-and you will learn to enjoy the privileges of being truly content.