Quotes About Ambition

Let's assume that people respond to stress." "Is that true?" "Well, not just negative stress, but also positive stress like interest, or ambition. If they're under too little stress, they don't care, so it's very hard to motivate them to do something. But if they're under too much stress, they panic. They freeze, or they get angry and do completely irrational things.

If his inmost heart could have been laid open, there would have been discovered that dream of undying fame; which, dream as it is, is more powerful than a thousand realities. —NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Slaves dream of freedom, commoners dream of becoming kings, what do kings dream of?

Rascals, would you live forever?

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

Of course you are discontented," God thundered. "I made you discontented, because if you weren't discontented, why would you bother to try to become better?" "Better than what?" I asked, trembling in spite of myself. "Better than Me," cried God.

Don't ever sell mankind short by saying there's anything they can't do.

There is no flying without wings.

Pies pa' que los quiero, si tengo alas pa' volar

Si actuas como si supieras lo que estas haciendo, puedes hacer lo que quieras.

feet, what do i need you for if i have wings to fly?

Why do I need feet when I have wings to fly?

Feet what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exaltedî

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a whole book—what everyone else does not say in a whole book.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.

The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.