Quotes About Ambition

James Hilton ( Cowboy)

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary, "Create a vision for the life you really want and make it a reality.

I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than die not making any mistakes at all.

Whatever you do, do it with purpose. It's not something to be ashamed of. It is something to be proud of.

I never go but where I have some great purpose to serve, returned he, either in the advancement of my own power and dominion or in thwarting my enemies.

And how meaningful Beckett's admonition is to me today: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Rilke's paradoxical words also draw me onward still toward the unlived life that haunts all of us. Our task, he writes, is to be 'continuously defeated by ever-larger things.

And how meaningful Beckett's admonition is to me today: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Rilke's paradoxical words also draw me onward still toward the unlived life that haunts all of us. Our task, he writes, is to be 'continuously defeated by ever-larger things.' 145

There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

Pride is a wonderful terrible thing a seed that bears two vines life and death.

I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built, she said. Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I had had the money. Never really wanted to build maybe. But I still own the houses.--Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

I am, a stride at a time

First you must take your degree. Set that before you as your first aim. Then, little by little, you will see your way. I mean in every sense, your way in life and in thinking.

Phall if you but will, rise you must.

It wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture.

The ambition which he felt astir at times in the darkness of his soul sought no outlet. A dusk like that of the outer world obscured his mind as he heard the mare's hoofs clattering along the tramtrack on the Rock Road and the great can swaying and rattling behind him.

Nobirdy aviar soar anywing to eagle it!

BaÅŸar?lar?n?n soÄŸuk çemberinin ortas?nda oturup ona parlak bir yaÅŸam saÄŸlayacak cesur bir talip bekledi. Ama tan??t??? erkekler s?radand?lar ve onlara cesaret vermeyip romantik arzular?n? gizlice lokum yiyerek bast?rmaya çal??t?.

An ambition to squint At my verses in print Makes me hope that for these you'll find room If you so condescend Then please place at the end The name of yours truly, L. Bloom

Tell me, for example, would you deflower a virgin?—Excuse me, Stephen said politely, is that not the ambition of most young gentlemen?

The ambition which he felt astir in at times in the darkness of his soul sought no outlet.