Quotes About Ambition

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

I felt like a young Tony Montana having come to America, except the only person I wanted to kill was myself.

Wishing for a fantasy life is easier than the pursuit of real goals.

Because you can't change your "natural and usual state of tranquility," the riches you accumulate will just raise your expectations and leave you no better off than you were before. Yet, not realizing the futility of our efforts, we continue to strive, all the while doing things that help us win at the game of life. Always wanting more than we have, we run and run and run, like hamsters on a wheel. AN

Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

And she draws Boethius's imagination far up into the heavens so that he can look down on the Earth and see it as a tiny speck on which even tinier people play out their comical and ultimately insignificant ambitions. She gets him to admit that riches and fame bring anxiety and avarice, not peace and happiness.

We're all gonna die trying to get it right, so aim high, and aim true. —Vance Joy

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

I'm an optimist who keeps my goals narrow.

If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.

Please, son, listen: intellectual vigor and humanity don't always go together. One can be an A student but a D person. And you have the drive. I need someone with drive . And you, dear. You're his soulmate in every way.

Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair.

The tick-tick-booms are softer now. I can barely hear them, and I think if I play loud enough, I can drown them out completely.

He's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep,' I said, trying to be fair. She was puzzled. 'How is he so successful?' 'Because,' I explained, 'he's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep.

She knew a couple of writers. They were always broke.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

signify an intention that I should become any more

The curve seems to be imprinted on us as a way to repurpose us for a changing role in society as we age, a role that is less about ambition and competition, and more about connection and compassion.

insisted on comparing upward, which is the worst thing you can do. As Richard Layard writes, "One secret of happiness is to ignore comparisons with people who are more successful than you are: always compare downwards, not upwards.

I felt lack of inspiration. What is it at the end I was trying to achieve? Is it a promotion? Is it validation? Is it a great piece of work on TV? It kind of lost its meaning.

People who like authoritarianism always picture themselves running the show. But no one stays on top for long.

It's easy to lose sight of your own goals when the universe's goals can be so demanding.

In my forties, I felt the attenuation of my ambition." Meaning what? "It means that the worldly ambitions that I might have had, I increasingly see as distractions from the life I really want to live.