Quotes About Ambition

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and persuasive when what he really wanted to do was get going. He said,

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON

It's easier to reach for the stars when you stand on the shoulders of giants.

Conscience,' Hobbey said with infinite sadness. 'I had one once. Ambition killed it.

Up! Up into man-thing nest! Up to their streets and their cellars! Up to their granaries and their stockyards! Up to their homes and their temples! All-all belongs to Rictus! All-all belongs to Vecteek!

Hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery.

Hope is the sum of the mental willpower and waypower that you have for your goals.

those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated.

subalterns, when Sebastian bought his first commission

Since fortune was dragging its heels, I would lure it out with my hard work.

There are many ways to obtain our desires, ma petite. Remember that, for it will serve you well.

ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1492, Don Cristóbal Colón—newly entitled as High Admiral and newly appointed a noble of our court—departs the port of Palos. He travels with three ships—the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. Serenaded by his crew, he stands at the prow of the Santa María, the wind ruffling his silvery hair. He looks ahead, always ahead, to the horizon.

I'm married already—to my work." I

Danny Noonan I haven't even told my father I'm not gonna get that scholarship. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. Ty Webb What's wrong with lumber I own two lumberyards. Danny Noonan I notice you don't spend too much time there. Ty Webb I'm not quite sure where they are.

The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth. Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269

craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives.

Compelling careers often have complex origins that reject the simple idea that all you have to do is follow your passion.

If you go after more control in your working life without a rare and valuable skill to offer in return, you're likely pursuing a mirage.

Se tan bueno que no puedan ignorarte.

To have a mission is to have a unifying focus for your career.

Think Small, Act Big." It's in this understanding of career capital and its role in mission that we get our explanation for this title. Advancing to the cutting edge in a field is an act of "small" thinking, requiring you to focus on a narrow collection of subjects for a potentially long time. Once you get to the cutting edge, however, and discover a mission in the adjacent possible, you must go after it with zeal: a "big" action.

the craftsman mindset focuses on what you can offer the world, the passion mindset focuses instead on what the world can offer you. This mindset is how most people approach their working lives.

No one owes you a great career, it argues; you