Quotes About Ambition

El deseo debe preceder a la realización. Vuestros deseos tienen que ser fuertes y bien definidos. Los deseos vagos no son más que débiles deseos.

I wish to be a man of means. I wish to own lands and cattle

That is truth, Kobbi, unpleasant thought though it be. We do not wish to go on year after year living slavish lives. Working, working, working! Getting nowhere.

his very good intentions may bring him into difficulties.

Youth is ambitious. Youth would take short cuts to wealth

We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

Will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

This desire is inherent in the human race.

Only a great desire for wealth.

I desired it be round and full, clinking with the sound of gold.

I do see good luck in a different light. I had thought of it as something most desirable that might happen to a man without effort upon his part. Now, I do realize such happenings are not the sort of thing one may attract to himself. From our discussion have I learned that to attract good luck to oneself, it is necessary to take advantage of opportunities. Therefore, in the future, I shall endeavor to make the best of such opportunities as do come to me.

I thrilled with the great resolve.

Therefore am I more determined than ever to carry through

WHERE DETERMINATION IS, THE WAY CAN BE FOUND.

ACTION will lead thee forward to the successes thou dost desire.

Ach, das ist süß. Das unbestimmte Leiden der Seele, die sucht, wartet, sich sehnt, sich selbst nicht kennt, die die Wunder des künftigen Lebens erbaut und die Trümmer des verflossenen wiederaufrichtet, dieses zarte, traurige Streben nach einem unbekannten Gut, das sich nie offenbart und nie erschöpft, all das ist das Leben der Seele. Unglücklich sind diejenigen, die das nicht wissen und ihren Ehrgeiz auf irdische Güter lenken!

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.

That's it for me. I'm fucked. As per usual. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Although come to think of it I was never even the freaking bridesmaid. Look, show your cock. It's the shortest line between two points. The world ain't giving away nice lives. You got a trust fund? You a genius? Show your cock. It's what you got.

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors utterly forgotten?

graduate college, win Pam, get job, make babies, move ahead in job, forget former feeling of special destiny...

Don't think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.

Still, accomplishment is unreliable. Succeeding, whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that succeeding will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

I can look back and see that I've spent much of my life in a cloud of things that have tended to push being kind to the periphery. Things like: Anxiety. Fear. Insecurity. Ambition. The mistaken belief that enough accomplishment will rid me of all that anxiety, fear, insecurity, and ambition. The belief that if I can only accrue enough -- enough accomplishment, money, fame -- my neuroses will disappear.

If we're going to become kinder, that process has to include taking ourselves seriously—as doers, as accomplishers, as dreamers. We have to do that, to be our best selves.