Quotes About Ambition

There must be some place along the route, a halfway house in time, where the runners may pause and ask themselves why they run, what is the prize and is it the prize they really want?

Nobody gets to tell you what your dream is or is not. Whatever your dream is, you deserve to realize it.

your dream is, you deserve to realize it.

Little Engines Can Do BIG Things

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

Play the game without mercy, play to win

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Most people are actually far less potent than they imagine themselves in their dreams, and are endowed with far greater qualities and capacities than they translate into action.

Seninle ayn? masaya oturan ya da seninle ayn? evde ya?ayan birinin herhangi bir büyük i? ba?araca??na inanamazs?n. Senin yak?n çevrende, küçük adam, dü?ünmek çok güçtür; insan ancak sana dair dü?ünür, seninle birlikte de?il. Çünkü büyük dü?ünceleri, geni? kapsaml? dü?ünceleri g?rtlaklars?n sen.

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

For the billionaire looking for the extra billion, and indeed for the participant in an experimental economics project looking for the extra dollar, money is a proxy for points on a scale of self-regard and achievement. These rewards and punishments, promises and threats, are all in our heads.

probably contributes to an explanation of why people litigate, why they start wars, and why they open small businesses.

recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was "becoming accomplished in a performing art.

We focus on what we want to do and can do, neglecting the plans and skills of others.

One recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was "becoming accomplished in a performing art

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can benefit

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially

and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially difficult when we most need to do it, but we can

Quisiera que mi determinación adquiriera determinaciones legendarias.

Giacché ci troviamo al mondo senza che nessuno ce lo abbia chiesto, tanto vale provare a realizzare qualcosa.

To feel pleasure in any act or activity, you have to pursue some end other than pleasure.

Oscar Wilde: "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said "What will you be? What will you do?" I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.