Quotes About Ambition

She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

A 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

Trabajaba mucho, eso sí, pero la vida es trabajo, ¿no? El que nace pobre tiene que trabajar, ¡a ver si no!

De manera que Cervantes quería ir a Colombia. No lo logró: en el reverso de su propio memorial, el Consejo de Indias escribió las nueve palabras crueles que constituyeron su única respuesta: " Busque por acá en que se le haga merced

Es la naturaleza humana, despreciar al de abajo y odiar al de arriba hasta que subes un escalón y el ciclo empieza de nuevo.

En el mundo existen millones de personas con talento que viven sus vidas en silenciosa desesperación, atrapados en oficios de mierda. ¿Por qué unos van en metro y otros en su avión privado? Es una cuestión de carácter. De querer realmente lo que deseamos

Está na natureza humana desprezar o que está em baixo e odiar o que está em cima, até ao dia em que sobes de escalão e recomeças.

There's that moment early in your career when you will work harder than any other point afterward.

I wanted everything and thought it would be given to me if I asked for it. I think I was too weak to take any kind of hardship.

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

Life is an infinite number of dreams and a single reality. You can dream as much as you wish but can only face one reality.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

It is very hard, I know, when you're young, to remember that there is such a thing as the rest of your life.

I would rather discover one cause than be the King of Persia.

When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.

Ben is twenty-six, and this is his first job. He is small, weedy, and terribly, terribly serious about his work. His. Not anyone else's. He despises everyone else's. He has, however, produced our only literary fiction in the last two years that has sold over five thousand copies, so people listen to him. Which is a pity, since he doesn't really have anything to say.