Quotes About Ambition

Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Fully occupied by the process of achieving innumerable goals, we lose the ability to determine which goals really matter, and why.

At the age of twenty, his artistic dreams frustrated, Hitler was a tramp: park benches, soup queues. Given just a little more talent, perhaps, he would have killed himself, not in the bunker, but in a cosy little studio in Klagenfurt.

Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback

Making lots of money--it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch.

There are no grand plans, no master strategies, just the lust for power, the insane addictive desire to accumulate more and more because too much is never enough.

He alone had been held responsible for the failure of the British naval attack of the Dardanelles, and many people had blamed his lack of judgement for the suffering and slaughter of the Gallipoli campaign. He had found no solace, during the summer of 1915, in being Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a Cabinet post devoid of all administrative work, and incapable of satisfying his ambition.

Foolish perhaps, but I play for high stakes and given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble.

But what is great can only begin great.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time

Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.

But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.

between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and

vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards, but always to our glorious goal.

En enkelt gang er De sunket dybt. Lad nu fremtiden vise, hvor højt De kan nå op.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how high you can rise.

I crave for mental exaltation.

But, Mameha-san, I don't want kindness!" "Don't you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you're in no position to ask.

Otrpjet ?u napore školovanja, otrpjet ?u sve muke, samo neka mi se pruži prilika privu?i pozornost muškarca kao što je predsjednik.