Quotes About Ambition

That destiny doesn't do home visits, that you have to go for it yourself?

En el poder las puñaladas nunca llegan de frente, siempre por la espalda y con un abrazo

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it yourself.

solucionados el tema de la alimentación y la vivienda, la primera necesidad que se plantea el ser humano es la búsqueda de motivos y recursos con los que sentirse diferente y superior a sus semejantes

Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao me?u knjigama i knjižarima, odlu?io sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim melodrame.

There I learned that one can forget almost everything in life, beginning with bad smells, and that if there was one thing I aspired to, it was not to die in a place like that. In the low hours—which were most hours—I told myself that if anything was going to get me out of there before an outbreak of tuberculosis did the job, it was literature, and if that pricked anyone's soul, or their balls, they could scratch them with a brick.

Que el destino no hace visitas a domicilio, que hay que ir a por él?

To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity

Creía haber ganado el mundo en una hora y que todavía no sabía que podía perderlo en un minuto»

His life seemed destined for the bitter, grey existence of mediocrities whom God, in his infinite cruelty, has endowed with delusions of grandeur and a boundless ambition far exceeding their talents.

Solucionados el tema e la alimentación y la vivienda, la primera necesidad que se plantea el ser humano es la búsqueda de motivos y recursos con los que sentirse diferente y superior a sus semejantes.

Nicholas, who had never seen the willingness to embrace septicemia as one of the more obvious qualities a young actor might find useful, jibbed at this robust assertion. "There.

No matter how successful we are, at some point we will become conscious that we feel incomplete

out there in Hollywood and couldn't find a job

You mean like money?

Why not go for the best! Driver—take us to Trump Tower!

Not me." Ned laughed. "My future is pretty well set, and I don't want anyone tampering with it. I'll go into business, prosper, and marry a certain ambitious young lady named....

Ruling was more difficult than wanting...

She was an arrow in need of a bow, to send her off in one direction or another.

Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content? But he went onward.

What good was it? That was the question she would like to know. What the hell good was it. All the plans she had made, and the music. When all that came of it was this trap--the store, then home to sleep, and back at the store again.

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

Even now, at just three years old, it is obvious that Luke longs to fly. It is like seeing Anakin all over again. The mop of unruly blond hair, the bright blue eyes, the hands permanently tinkering. Luke isn't content to just play with his toys. He's constantly at work modifying them, making improvements.