Quotes About Ambition

Do you believe destiny can be changed?" "To get what I want…I'll change the very position of the stars, if that's what it takes.

Finding Happiness in Your Career The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

But as soon as you find yourself focusing on the tangible aspects of your job, you are at risk of becoming like some of my classmates, chasing a mirage. The next pay raise, you think, will be the one that finally makes you happy. It's a hopeless quest.

Tell them that if they're not occasionally failing, then they're not aiming high enough.

If you begin to feel that the likeness you have sketched out for yourself is not right—that this is not the person you want to become—then you must revisit your likeness. But if it becomes clear that it is the person you want to become, then you must devote your life to becoming that person.

if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

And I think he actually believes the best way to do it is to gain a dictatorship over the Solar System. That ambition rules everything in his life. It has hardened him and strengthened him. He will crush ruthlessly, without a single qualm, anything that stands in his path. That's why we'll have a fight on our hands.

Worrying about what 'people are going to say' and 'what the neighbours might think' is always in the minds of working people. They aren't afraid of failure. They are afraid of success and how they would have to make excuses to their friends if it ever came their way.

One way to ruin your life is to have dreams bigger than your abilities.

The horizon is 25 miles away. You keep walking to towards the horizon and it just keeps moving back. Life is like that. You never reach your goal. We are doomed to disappointment because in our pursuit of perfection we are constantly reminded that we will never reach it. The goal, like the horizon, is beyond our reach.

You get what you work for not what you wish for

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you, if you are determined to learn no one can stop you.

All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. —Sir Francis Bacon

Sure, work could be a pain in the ass, but it was purpose, and what was a life, any life, his life, without purpose?

Dorothea: What the fuck are you? Nix: A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind.

Go like hell and go to the grave satisfied." He

It's like asking a gang of kids to lift a Patton tank out of Lake Erie with a few ropes and a raft.

You didn't need to be lucky to be successful. You just needed to work hard.

I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.

Man is an animal who is trying to evolve into a god. Many of his problems are an inevitable result of this struggle.

He who gets behind in a race must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

I'm an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur? Pepper said the last part like manure. That's just a hustler who pays taxes.

IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.