Quotes About Ambition

Cómo no iban a apodersarse los deliriros de grandeza de un campesino del Banato si de pronto, a los veintiún años, con sólo mover unas figuritas sobre un tablero de madera, ganaba más en una semana que su pueblo entero en todo un año de talar bosques y realizar las tareas más duras?

Ojalá su impaciencia consiga más que mi paciencia.

nada parece más difícil en la tierra que renunciar al Poder.

It is generally assumed that getting rich is a Jew's true and typical aim in life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Getting rich, to a Jew, is only an interim stage, a means to his real end, by no means his aim in itself. The true desire of a Jew, his inbuilt ideal, is to rise to a higher social plane by becoming an intellectual.

Al clarear el día del martes 20 de septiembre de 1519, se levan ruidosamente las anclas, ondean al viento las velas y truenan las bocas de fuego hacia la tierra que va desapareciendo. Ha comenzado el viaje de exploración más largo, la aventura más audaz que registra la historia de la humanidad.

Lightly, caressingly, Marie Antoinette picked up the crown as a gift. She was still too young to know that life never gives anything for nothing, and that a price is always exacted for what fate bestows. She did not think she would have to pay a price. She simply accepted the rights of her royal position and performed no duties in exchange. She wanted to combine two things which are, in actual human experience, incompatible; she wanted to reign and at the same time to enjoy.

Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as  Persuasion, but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that. Besides, so I shall be.

going to the kingdom of cocaine, it was going to Hollywood...

not that I ought to grumble. I have money of my own, a luxurious home in excruciating taste, and all the clothes I want. All that is lacking is liberty, an aim to work for, and the conviction that my life is worth living. I am a most fortunate young woman.

what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating for a house of our own. He put it to my mother. "We ain't poor, so why should we live like we are?" My mother sent up a wail. "Leave Miss Brookie?" One thing my mother kept hold of: There was to be

The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.

If I go to Stanfurd, I can get a good job and not have to sell oranges by the side of the highway.

The pirates understood what drove men

She had been waiting, she thought. Always waiting. In New York, waiting for her life to be replaced by some other, more interesting life on offer. Waiting for money that she felt ought to be hers to flood in and elevate her position, from some male source...

No woman should build her life waiting for a man to come along and save her. It's a tragic waste of brains and talent.

Climb every mountain , Ford Every stream Follow every rainbow ,'Till you find your dream

You are riding for a fall, Your Grace," "I'll be riding you before Christmas.

Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.

There are no small parts, only small actors.' You have a big part and you just need to let yourself grow into it.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind.