Quotes About Ambition

Directing a film in Hindi is definitely on the cards.

I was about 19 when I began working for Hindi films.

If I had my way, I would have started my career with Hindi films.

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

If any one judge it hard that men should be made with ambitions to whose objects they can never attain, I answer, ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration; and no man ever followed the truth, which is the one path of aspiration, and in the end complained that he had been made this way or that.

Nothing is so ruinous to progress in which effort is needed, as satisfaction with apparent achievement. It always stops momentum.

about him, and that all the signs were that he

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

His answer to every problem, every setback was "I will work harder!" —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end.

Los altos quieren quedarse donde están; los medianos quieren arrebatarle su puesto a los altos; los bajos quieren abolir todas las distinciones y crear una sociedad en la que todos sean iguales.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls, And woke to find it true; I wasn't born for an age like this; Was Smith? Was Jones? Were you?

the god in men is also the devil the moment it begins to masticate on the morsels of power.

The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.

World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.

The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

He really didn't want his job. He didn't want to work again; all he wanted was to sink, sink, effortless, down into the mud.

Yapmak istediÄŸimiz ÅŸeylerin hep yap?lamayacak ÅŸeyler olduÄŸunu düÅŸünerek hayat?m?z? geçirmemiz tuhaf deÄŸil mi?

Isn't it queer how we go through life, always thinking that the things we want to do are the things that can't be done?