Quotes About Ambition

I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.

If the waves were to start thinking, they would believe that they are moving forward, that they have a purpose, that they are working for the good of the sea, and they wouldn't fail to work out a philosophy as inane as their zeal.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

DecepÅ£iile repetate presupun ambiÅ£ii inumane. Oamenii cu adev?rat triÅŸti sunt aceia care, neputând r?sturna totul, s-au acceptat ca ruin? a idealului lor.

S? ne îndoim de cei care care întorc spatele iubirii,ambiÅ£iei,societ??ii.AceÅŸtia se vor r?zbuna pentru motivul de a fi renunÅ£at la toate acestea.Istoria ideilor e istoria rachiunei singuraticului.

Deceptiile repetate presupun ambitii inumane. Oamenii cu adevarat tristi sint acei care, neputind rasturna totul, s-au acceptat ca ruina a propriului ideal.

Pentru un tân?r ambiÅ£ios, nu exist? nenorocire mai mare decât frecventarea unor buni cunosc?tori ai firii omeneÅŸti. Eu însumi am frecventat trei sau patru: la dou?zeci de ani, eram terminat.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

It is a great force, and a great fortune, to be able to live without any ambition whatever. I aspire to it, but the very fact of so aspiring still participates in ambition.

The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.

If only I could reach the level of the man I would have liked to be! But some power, increasing year by year, draws me down.

Not the fear of effort but the fear of success explains more than one failure.

Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: "What do you expect of this world?" stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep.

Every vanquished desire affords us power.

A man who trembles dreams of making others tremble, a man who lives in terror ends his days in ferocity. Hence the case of the Roman emperors.

Za?o?y? rodzin?. My?l?, ?e ?atwiej by mi przysz?o za?o?y? imperium.

Each day is a Rubicon in which I aspire to be drowned.

Why do men insist on achieving something? Would it not be better if they stood still under the sun in calm and silent immobility? What is there to accomplish? Why so much effort and ambition? Man has forgotten the meaning of silence.

know peace only when my ambitions sleep. Once they waken, anxiety repossesses me.

I find it hard to understand your ambition to make a name for yourself in an age when the epigone is de rigueur.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.