Quotes About Ambition

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started.

Dreams seem to generate a special kind of passion and willpower, both of which help people navigate the seas of life.

Success is not attained when the goal is reached; success is attained from the time when the first step is taken towards that goal.

Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.

Niemand gibt dir etwas. Du musst es dir nehmen. (Aus dem Film Departed)

U getu nema budu?nosti, nema perspektive. Jedina realna ambicija ovde je preživeti ili pobe?i.

Si nos levantamos pronto, pero muy pronto, y sin reproches, y nos ponemos a trabajar, somos un país imparable».

Dogs and wolves are the same, except for one difference: dogs live at home, food and water are provided and they sleep in their owner's bed. Wolves, meanwhile, live on mountains, have to find their own food and somewhere to kip . . . I want a team full of hungry and ambitious wolves.' (Boza Maljkovic)

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

Quizá era momento de claudicar en mis anhelos de grandeza. Convertirme en una mamá modelo dedicada al cien por ciento a mis hijos y a mi marido. Olvidarme de que solo a través de la danza podía alcanzar mis metas y vivir más en concordia con mis posibilidades. En otras palabras, aceptar mi mediocridad y mi pusilanimidad

Zapatos que les apretaban y les sacaban ampollas y que tu padre impedía que dejaran de calzar porque sin zapatos ningún indio podía llegar a ser alguien. Los ingenieros, los abogados, los maestros no calzaban huaraches.

Para alcanzar tus metas jugaste la carta de los símbolos, y nada más simbólico que la indumentaria.

Prefiero ser conocido por mis grandes fracasos que por mis mediocres éxitos», citaba a uno de sus novelistas favoritos.

A key piece of advice from Hermosillo was to have faith in oneself. He would often tell Guillermo, "If a road is not presented, you build one.

I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit." (Guardian interview 2006)

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

He's washin' dishes and baby clothes,He's so ambitious he even sews.But don't forget, folks,That's what you get, folks,For makin' whoopee!

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Man lives in his dreams, that is where he gets his only reward and receives his only pleasure.

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal 'what's the use?' – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

It's like a taco aspired to become a sope mixed with a quesadilla but got scared by the grease bath and quit halfway.

Everybody he knew these days seemed to be making much more money with far less work than he had to get through before he saw a cheque. His inability to earn at an adequate rate had now been compounded by his loss of much of the family's capital in a card game. He wanted to work--highly paid, richly rewarded work. But most of all he wanted his £7,000 back.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

Jelena had begun thinking about such things, how much having a chance to do what you were good at mattered.