Quotes About Ambition

Primeiro diga a si mesmo o que deseja se tornar; Então, faça o necessário para tanto - Epiteto

The thoughts that linger are the "if only" questions, like Who could I have become if I had finally done the things I always wanted to do?

Where there's a lot of money to be made, there's also a lot of blood to be spilled.

La diferencia entre el hombre al que le gusta soñar continuamente que es Napoleón y al hombre que se cree Napoléon es la diferencia que hay entre el soñador dichoso y el esquizofrénico desdichado.

I told him just so he wouldn't be fooled by the bright lights of Istanbul into thinking that life was somehow easy.

Razlika izme?u ?oveka kome se dopada da neprestano sanja da je Napoleon i ?oveka koji za sebe misli da je Napoleon, jeste razlika izme?u sre?nog sanjara i nesre?nog šizofreni?ara.

Don't let rich people make you feel ashamed. The only difference between us and them is that they got to Istanbul first and started making money before we did.

Einstein...even failed physics once, but he'd never thought of giving up school to make a living.

Of course he was conceited: having devoured most of what had been accomplished before his time, he turned up his nose at it all; he had no doubt he'd do better; he had no equal; he knew he was more intelligent and creative than anyone else. In short, he was an average youth.

Despite whatever great artistic sense and talent a man might possess, he ought to seek money and power elsewhere to avoid forsaking his art when he fails to receive proper compensation for his gifts and efforts.

Se eu me arrependo de alguma coisa (...) é ter deixado de lutar pelo que queria na vida, e por isso só posso culpar a mim mesma.

Hiç vazgeçme bozac?. Bu kuleler, betonlar aras?nda kim al?r deme. Sen hep geç sokaklardan." "Ben k?yamete kadar boza sataca??m," dedi Mevlut.

May God bless all that you touch, sister," I would say so that Mevlut would learn that if you want to survive in this jungle, you have to make certain compromises, so that he would understand that if you want to be rich, you must be prepared to grovel.

Barakaya doÄŸru yürüyor, hafif bir utanç duyuyor, tasar?lar yap?yordu: Her sabah cimnastik yapacak, küçük de olsa insan? aÅŸa??layan ÅŸu göbeÄŸini eritecek, gövdesinin haml???n? giderecek, getirdiÄŸi bütün kitaplar? okuyacak, bir ÅŸeyler yazacak, düÅŸünecek eskiden olduÄŸu gibi saÄŸl?kl?, dengeli ve mutlu bir insan olarak NiÅŸanta??'ndaki evine dönecekti.

Ve?inu smo novca ulagali ili trošili na kupnju parcela i starih zgrada za budu?e gradnje u dijelovima grada koji ?e poskupjeti. Posebice kupuju?i prazna zemljišta izvan grada, osje?ao sam se poput sultana koji pokušava zaboraviti na bol zbog nemanja djece pripajaju?i nove države svome carstvu.

Sepse tani e kuptoj se asgjë nuk mund të ndryshohet ,nëse provojmë se jeta që bëjmë, është ëndrra e tjetërkujt.

Wisdom will not open her doors to those who are not willing to pay the price in self-sacrifice, in hard work. Her jewels are too precious to scatter before the idle, the ambitionless.

Don't think you have no chance in life because you have no capital to begin with. Most of the rich men of to-day began poor. The chances are you would be ruined if you had capital.

Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

No man ever climbed to success on another's back.

I've never found any elevators in life; I've had to climb to every place worth reaching. And now I think it over, I wish it so with everybody, for then no one would rise any higher than he deserves to go. I

The human mind is happiest when it is most active in performing the functions which it was intended to perform. One of man's greatest passions is that of achievement, the passion for doing things, the ambition to accomplish. This is one of the greatest satisfactions of life, and satisfaction is the chief ingredient in happiness.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals.