Quotes About Ambition

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.

It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.

Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped. But if it be stopped, and cannot have his way, it becometh adust, and thereby malign and venomous.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

Ä°nsanlar?n umutlar?n? ustaca, kurnazca beslemek, böylece onlar? bir umuttan ötekine koÅŸturmak, hoÅŸnutsuzluk aÄŸr?s?na kar?? en etkili ilaçlardan biridir.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

Good thoughts are little better than good dreams, except they be put in action.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

Anything built on a grand scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

I loved it; I was living a dream.

Fakat gerçekte birçok birey yüksek statü elde etme ÅŸans? uÄŸruna düÅŸük statü sahibi olma riskini alarak, daha hiyerarÅŸik bir toplumu seçebilir.

There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

Success is a liar liars love success

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.

He too had plans... he wasn't embarrassed by the idea of carefully thinking through what would be necessary to achieve them. You made a picture of the life you wanted to have, and then you worked back from there to the present.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.