Quotes About Ambition

Con padre Emanuele aveva capito che si doveva infervorare per le Heroiche Imprese - e che si può spendere una vita non per combattere un gigante, ma per nominare in troppi modi un nano.

C'è stato un tempo in cui ero tutto ambizione e smania di imparare, e giorno dopo giorno mi sentivo sconfortato per il fatto che madre natura in uno dei suoi momenti di clemenza non mi avesse stampato il marchio di quel genio che ogni tanto concede a qualcuno.

No sin cierto remordimiento, me sentía como un Stalin que ríe entre dientes mientras piensa: «Haced, haced, pobres bolcheviques, que yo sigo estudiando en el seminario de Tiflis y después del plan quinquenal me encargo yo.»

And anyone who nurtures impossible hopes is already a loser. Once you come to realize it, you just give up.

You cannot change the world through ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else does and are no trouble to anyone; they're successful, make money, find good jobs, enter politics, receive honours; they become famous writers, academics, journalists. Can anyone who is so good at looking after their own interests really be stupid? I'm the stupid one, the one who wanted to go tilting at windmills.

hay dos clases de poetas: los buenos, que queman sus poemas a los dieciocho años, y los malos, que siguen escribiendo poesía mientras

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.

He was carried over the difficult places in spite of himself; and he went plunging away in mad career—a very Mazeppa-ride upon the wild horse Speculation.

Jurgis had come there, and thought he was going to make himself useful, and rise and become a skilled man; but he would soon find out his error—for nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave.

forceful men of the people went into politics, their hearts bleeding for the wrongs of the poor; so they collected votes and built up a political machine, which they used to blackmail their way to fortune.

And you won't need any assurance that I agree with you about Hearst. He is one of the most unscrupulous and most dangerous men in America. He stops at nothing to get his way. And there are many like him.

How terrible it would have been, at this time, to be without it; to have died among the Tulsis, amid the squalour of that large, disintegrating and indifferent family; to have left Shama and the children among them, in one room; or worse, to have lived without even attempting to lay claim to one's portion of the earth; to have lived and died as one had been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated.

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.

If might have beens were kings and queens, then we'd have kingdoms all.

I reckon most people that chase money only do it because they don't really know what it is they do want.

Strivers are driven to test themselves over and over again. They don't rest on their accomplishments. Success urges them to reach higher, take bigger risks. If they fail, they pull themselves back up. Ambition is the essence of human evolution. Strivers adapt to their changing environment.

So I've got five books, a building, and a hundred bucks. I'm starting my business tomorrow.

Many people have dreams. However, a vision is a dream with a plan:

Life's hard," said Mr. Harricot slowly, "but it's healthier that way. If you get what you wants too soon and too easy it only makes you dissatisfied with it.

Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.

What is distant is seen as exotic and alluring; what is proximate becomes mundane and ordinary. Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.