Quotes About Ambition

No man becomes this or that by wishing to be it, however earnestly.

Caci avutia este ca apa sarata: cu cat bei cu atat ti-e mai este. La fel este si gloria.

We take no pleasure in existence except when we are striving after something.

Riches, one may say, are like sea-water; the more you drink the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.

Fulfillment never satisfies, nothing is so fatal to an ideal than its realization.

Umut gerçeÄŸin reddediliÅŸidir , koÅŸmaya devam etmesi için at?n burnunun ucunda salland?rd?klar? havuçtan ibarettir.

Herkes istediÄŸini yapabilir, ama istediÄŸini isteyemez

Ordinary people think merely how they shall spend their time; a man of any talent tries to use it.

No hay nada más implacable y cruel que la envidia: y sin embargo, ¡nos esforzamos incesante y principalmente en suscitar envidia!

Rahel's toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to (which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place).

I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.

Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living.

I had little hope of succeeding.

Her bosses saw her as an ideal prospect.

I was willing to be rejected...You have to be willing to be rejected. It was a trait that let him persist until he got what he wanted and avoid whatever he didn't want.

what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals.

Je savais ce que c'était d'être hantée par le fantôme d'un moi que je voulais être, mais dont je n'étais qu'à moitié consciente.

ÅžtiÅ£i cum se v?d cei înst?riÅ£i priviÅ£i de jos? Nu, nu ÅŸtiÅ£i! Ca ulii ÅŸi ca ÅŸoimii, a c?ror spate nu-l z?rim decât rareori, fiindc? ei zboar? aproape tot timpul acolo sus!

Genom att försöka göra det omöjliga når man högsta graden av det möjliga.

Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!

This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

What nobody understood then is this: The only way that you achieve what you want and fulfill your dreams and become great is by demanding that sort of attention. You have to make it happen.