Quotes About Ambition

He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

Perhaps other thoughts come into your mind that scoff at your plan or ambition. You discover that there is a quarrel in your mind with your own brethren; opposition sets in. The way to handle the opposition in your mind is to detach your attention from sense evidence and

Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard.

New York doesn't leave a lot of time for pondering forks in the road. People who have paused to gather their wits often find themselves suddenly waking up in a cookie-cutter beige apartment in Hoboken. I will not ever leave New York. I don't know how long it takes to become a true New Yorker, but I assume that if I die here ... that would qualify me.

If you start buying your own bullshit, you risk becoming management material.

Judy was cruel. She had that smart cruelty to her of someone who'd gotten what she wanted. And she'd gotten it the fairest way, through suffering.

Who does she think she's kidding? As if I don't know why she's sucking up to me— Because I've got something she'd like to get her hands on. At least, she thinks I've got him.

I keep thinking they're gonna call me. I keep thinking they're gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don't.

What a wild dilemma, how to make it to the stars on a highway slick with fear

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on robber barons-he might become one one day!

Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it.

The secret is to scale one's ambitions precisely to fit one's talent, Mr Lesnovich told Enid. His manner as always was grave, vaguely censorious. That is the key to happiness.

The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on "robber barons"—he might become one, one day!

No has fracasado, aunque no hayas estado a la altura de la exaltada idea que tienes de ti misma.

If you want a life. Different from your parents.

It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.)

her employer Carl Spader had a saying: You're in politics, you're an optimist. You're no longer an optimist, you're no longer in politics. You're no longer an optimist, you're dead.

What a person is in secret, he becomes -- in politics.

I still remember typing the title page on my manual Smith-Corona with clammy hands and a racing heart. When I came to the words, A novel by Joyce Elbert, I heard the New York Philharmonic break into Wagnerian praise for a major new literary voice, yet seconds later doubt and insecurity had crept in.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

In order to seize the day, make goals and go after them with all your heart.