Quotes About Ambition

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of achievement.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.

Most of our desires are born and nurtured at other people's expense.

Assaulted as I am by ambition, covetousness, rashness and superstition, and having such enemies to life as that within me, should I start wondering about the motions of the Universe?

Era un hombre de muchos planes, pero de poco fruto.

What do his ambitions matter, if those are her collar-bones?

God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!

Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.

Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real.

Anything really is possible in musical theater.

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. —M. C. ESCHER

Humanity is like someone whose outstretched arms are reaching for the stars but whose feet are mired in the mud.

El destino no es cuestión de azar; es cuestión de elección. No es algo que hay que esperar; es algo que hay que conseguir. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

I don't give a damn about reviews. What I like to read are royalty checks.

We try so hard to be important, to be a winner, to be powerful, to be rich, to be famous, to express our personal dream, and to impose our dream onto other people around us.

Put your attention on your dreams rather than your dramas.

Bitmi? bir ?eyin pe?inden ko?man?n manas? ne?

You know, I'm like Avis rent-a-car: Because I'm insignificant, I try harder.

Have you never fantasized about facing him as an equal?

If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

For this one night, the less he cared, the more he made.