Quotes About Ambition

What do you want? Because if you don't want something, you've got nothing.You are drift, you are washed away, and then buried under the snow and the shadows. And then when, in the spring, the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried, and you will no longer be anywhere.

What do you want? Because if you don't want something, you've got nothing. You are adrift, you are washed away, and then buried under the snow and the shadows. And when, in the spring, the snow melts, no one will remember where you were frozen and buried, and you will no longer be anywhere.

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina.

Did you ever have a dream? he asked. Something you wanted so badly and just when you think you're about to reach out and grabit, something else takes it away?

e que se faça como os arqueiros sensatos, os quais, diante de um alvo demasiado distante, e conhecendo até onde vai a potência de seu arco, alçam a mira muito mais alta que o ponto de destino, não para alcançar com suas flechas tanta altura, mas para poder, com o auxílio de tão alta mira, atingir sua meta.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

You will start a band. You will start a magazine. You will start a family. You will finish nothing.

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn't, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.

Daniel was twenty-three, a year younger than I was, and though he hadn't yet published a book of poems he seemed to have spent his time better, or more imaginatively, or maybe what could be said is that he felt a pressure to go places, meet people, and experience things that, whenever I have encountered it in someone, has always made me envious.

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.

go for what you want if it doesn't want you back, so be it, it doesn't deserve you

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

if you wish to please me, and to bring success and honour to yourself, do right and study, because others will help you if you help yourself.

He who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.

Everything has contributed to your greatness. You must do the rest.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...

Cuando quieren elevarse, ustedes miran hacia arriba; yo miro hacia abajo porque ya me encuentro en las alturas

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…

I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.

it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Nigel Hamilton

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

Poets should be ashamed To die Before they kiss The sun

and everybody was happy that uncle lee was able to get that scholarship even though you wondered when you could do quadratic equations in your head why you had a basketball scholarship but you always knew that you had to take what they were giving since that was all you were going to get but you never fooled yourself about either the taking or the giving or the needing or the having you just sort of said to yourself I'll have to see what is being offered