Quotes About Ambition

El mejor placer en la vida es hacer lo que la gente te dice que no puedes hacer.

Which of us, in his ambitious moments, has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose--musical, but without (conventional) rhythm and rhyme, and supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical impulses of the soul.

it is the contempt which the practical man feels for the dreamer, the strong man for the weak, the man who can do for the man who can only look on and talk. The

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream

Think about all the tomorrows of your life.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

Industry is a far better horse to ride a genius.

That's the trouble. I would be digging a ditch. They would say, That's no place for a man like you. Come up to the office. So I would be an overseer, and they would say That's no place for a man like you: Come into the building. Later they would say This is no job for a man like you, come higher up; and I would quit, and go and start digging a ditch somewhere else. You see?

Auch er stieg funkelnd empor im größten und schrecklichsten Feuer, das Buchheim je heimgesucht hatte. Er, der Brandstifter und Zündfunke, flog hinauf, um dort oben ein Stern zu werden und für alle Zeit hinabzustrahlen auf eine Welt, die zu eng war für einen so großen Geist wie ihn.

General Douglas MacArthur was the most brilliant, most important, and most valuable military leader in American history—at least that's what Douglas MacArthur thought. When asked by a proper British gentlewoman if he had ever met the famous general, Dwight D. Eisenhower—himself about to march into history—supposedly replied, "Not only have I met him, ma'am; I studied dramatics under him for five years in Washington and four years in the Philippines.

la ambición desmedida reivindica que "el fin justifica los medios" y obviamente, suele apartarse de la honestidad y el juego limpio. No hay que ganar a cualquier costo, no todo vale.

Para un Yo ideal racional, que no sea malsano, se necesita una mezcla balanceada de ambición y realismo.

La premisa es como sigue: cuanto más hagas del "ganar" un valor, paradójicamente, más destinado estarás a perder.

Lo bueno debe ser útil. Lo útil es bueno. El tipo A, congruente con su afán acaparador, hace de la obtención de logros su bandera de lucha. Por tal razón, abandonar los resultados es casi una blasfemia y un sinsentido ridículo, producto de un romanticismo ingenuo.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

The will to do, the soul to dare.