Quotes About Ambition

Life is comfortable and clean enough here already. And so secure. What it needs it to be less secure, more eager.

HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.

She was a woman with a working brain and no work.

his secretary-press-agent-private-philosopher, Lee Sarason, yielded nothing to others'.

I'm not sure that I shall. I'm trying to develop my own large capacity for dullness and contentment. I've failed at every positive thing I've tried. I'd better 'settle down,' as they call it, and be satisfied to be—nothing.

Street, and she was able to give Elmer the three hundred

She watched the hulk of marriage drifting down on her frail speed-boat of aspiration, and steered in desperate circles.

To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.

She would earn her living.

Have men and women always got to hurt each other this way?' cried Ralph. 'Yes. Anybody that ain't content with being a peddler is going to hurt himself and everybody else, I guess,' said Joe.

His name was George F. Babbitt. He was forty-six years old now, in April, 1920, and he made nothing in particular, neither butter nor shoes nor poetry, but he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

Oh, Sam, my dear, but I'm so grasping! I want the whole world, not just Zenith! I DON'T want to be a good wife and mother and play cribbage prettily! I want splendor! Great horizons!

He wandered to the window. In that blast of snow, the shaft of the Plymouth National Bank Building was aspiring as a cathedral; twenty gray stories, with unbroken vertical lines swooping up beyond his vision into the snowy fog. It had nobility, but it seemed cruel, as lone and contemptuous of friendly human efforts as a forgotten tower on the Siberian steppes. How indifferently it would watch him starve and freeze!

He would certainly (so the observer assumed) produce excellent motor cars; he would make impressive speeches to the salesmen; but he would never love passionately, lose tragically, nor sit in contented idleness upon tropic shores.

Había nacido para ser grande, porque era capaz de proyectar lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a llevar a cabo, y de llevar a cabo lo que otros hombres no se atrevían a proyectar. El caso de Lady Sannox

In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

If you want to get ahead, you have to create your own chances. You have to carve out your own opportunities.

That girl is going to go far. I have no idea in which direction- but she'll go far

Every promotion requires you to do less of the thing you originally wanted to do

The thing with giving up is you never know whether you could have done the job.