Quotes About Ambition

I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.

So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Where You Go Hereafter Depends upon What You Go After Here

Show me the money!

The most powerful wish there is, one that is a birth and death wish, all at the same time.

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

cursar todos los años y obtener el título. Pero Martin era

Remember, makeing your dream come true can take years, so don't give up the day job. Do pray for a lucky break.

I've said that Love annihilates desire and lust and ambition. Love and affection are such things that when they become active, even if someone were to bring a hundred houris, a hundred beautiful maidens of paradise, in front of you, they would seem as lifeless as mud bricks to you. Whenever you hear a word of wisdom or begin contemplation, that love and affection start to move.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.

El gran peligro de la mediocridad es que es soportable.

el verdadero enemigo del éxito no es el fracaso, como muchas veces pensamos, sino el conformismo.

Hubiera querido ser torero, pero solo llegué a Premio Nobel

life went rushing past and it preoccupied you, and suddenly you realized you were never going to read War and Peace or sit drinking blood-orange juice at a sidewalk cafe in Florence or sail the Greek islands for a month.

Men dream of the unattainable, and sometimes even achieve it. But the house odds were always stacked against visionaries.

Lou Perlman dreamed he was on the threshold of a thrilling new life, even as he understood he was travelling steerage on the same old battered boat of wishful thinking.

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Follow your dreams, make your best choices, and peace will come as you realize that you are on the best path for yourself.

But if life could be worse, didn't that mean it could also be better?'" As it was, he settled for odd jobs, harvesting occasional crops, living a life that was destined never to rise above the menial. He was proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.

proof that the muzzling of motivation only makes for mediocrity, that every man needs a purpose.

It's his way of saying that dreams are more important than we can ever imagine-we just need to listen.