Quotes About Ambition

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.

To be in the presence of a great leader is to know a blighted soul who has managed to make the darkness work for him. Ishmael says it best: For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but a disease. In chapter 36, The Quarter-Deck, Melville show us how susceptible we ordinary people are to the seductive power of a great and demented man.

What did she mean, study like you're going to die? She said she spit up blood, but is that for real? Is studying really worth dying for? I couldn't accept it, and I guess that was one of my weak points.

Ma non era per la sua ambizione che si era imbattuta in un atroce destino. La sua tragedia si era consumata perché lei amava profondamente un uomo che non sapeva amare. Naruse non aveva semplicemente ucciso Yoko, aveva ucciso l'amore.

Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

Like everything else in his life, he crashed forward, caution the first casualty.

What does she fear in idleness?

An arrogant head of state gives permission to all nature of hate as long as it feeds his ambition. And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself, and rots. Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.

always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.-- Everlost

Wasn't that the greatest perk of a perfect world? That there were no limits to what a person could do or become?

I ain't no runaway, I'm a run-to.

Obliteration is our hallmark, he said. We don't always succeed, but we try.

Keep your eyes on the prize, although I think he should have also said Go after the prize, too; and maybe that's why prizes ever came his way, because all he ever did was look at them.

No puedes dejar tu huella sin cribar unos cuantos egos por el camino

What is it that drives us to seek such lofty goals, yet tear out the foundations? Why must we always sabotage the pursuit of our own dreams?" "We are imperfect beings," Munira said. "How could we ever fit in a perfect world?

But as an artist, Ezra wanted to be more than just acceptable. He wanted to be exceptional. Because if he couldn't be exceptional, what was the point?

All he ever wanted was a comfortable chair and a place in history. Well, he was robbed of one and died in the other.

The difference between you and me...is that when I look at the world, I see opportunity. When you look at the world, you're just trying to find a place to urinate.

Era adrede; les recordaba que, aunque tuvieran los puestos humanos más importantes del mundo, nunca debían sentirse demasiado cómodos ni dormirse en los laureles.

Se vuoi qualcosa con tutte le tue forze, prima o poi la ottieni

I suspected you had a spark in you, but never dreamed it would be such an inferno!

And so, I have no one but myself to blame when the scythedom befouls the things I have worked for.