Quotes About Ambition

Le besoin de se surpasser doit être instinctif et non pas théorique ou seulement plausible.

Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."*

Between laughs I could hear my mother's words ringing in my ears. "Why don't you write something that will sell?

The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung of degredation. It's a negative reality, just like death -- a sort of heaven without the pain and terror of dying.

If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.

It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.

I expected so much, so much of the world and it all fell short.

The moment I stepped on the American boat which was to take me to New York I felt I was in another world. I was among the go-getters again, among the restless souls, who, not knowing how to live their own life, wish to change the world for everybody.

Success is a bitter fruit: sooner or later, what you have created turns against you, becomes your torment.

This is not the man who ran away from something, but the man who ran towards something. The man destined no longer to seek but to fulfill himself. Not renunciation, but acceptance.

When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. there is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit. A constant ferment, but it might just as well be going on in a test tube. Nobody knows what it is about. Nobody directs the energy.

Hayallerden uzak m? ya?amal? yoksa onlarla birlikte mi? ??te mesele!

Era como los hombres que han estado mucho tiempo en las trincheras, demasiado tiempo bajo el fuego. El sufrimiento humano ordinario, la envidia humana ordinaria, las ambiciones humanas ordinarias... eran mierda para mí.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common Hours.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

But it is better to follow even the shadow of the best than to remain content with the worst.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits Will lift thee to the level of themselves.

The heights by which great men reach are not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept went toiling upwards through the night. It may not be exact but it always how I remember it.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.