Quotes About Ambition

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle

Of this I am absolutely sure: Do not reach the era of child-rearing and real jobs with a guitar case full of crushing regret for all the things you wished you'd done in your youth. I know too many people who didn't do those things. They all end up mingy, addled, shrink-wrapped versions of the people they intended to be.

But now I could see the line between this and that—between a childhood in which I saw my mother and stepfather forging ahead over and over again with two pennies in their pocket and my own general sense that I could do it too. Before I left, I hadn't calculated how much my journey would reasonably be expected to cost and saved up that amount plus enough to be my cushion against unexpected expenses. If I'd done that, I wouldn't have been here, eighty-some days out

on the PCT, broke, but okay—getting to do what I wanted to do even though a reasonable person would have said I couldn't afford to do it.

The only way to override your limitations, insecurities, jealousies, and ineptitude is to produce.

You loathe yourself, and yet you're consumed by the grandiose ideas you have about your own importance. You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.

I mean: be your best, most gigantic self.

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think it's particularly hard for women. We are, after all, the gender onto which a giant Here to Serve button has been eternally pinned.

Even if you get the dream, you don't know if it will stay true.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

You know what resolutions are? They're a setup for defeat.

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

I am a businessman. To me, people only do things out of self-interest.

Chetan Bhagat

Chetan Bhagat

complex vortex of tests, classes, selections and preparations is something every insignificant Indian student like me has to go through to have a shot at a decent life. Else, I could always take the job of Birju the watchman or, if I wanted it simpler, hang myself

Our parents valued security over everything else. In their time jobs were few, so you better grab one and settle down. Else you would be on the road,' Brijesh said.

How can god give girls so much power? How can they turn productive, busy and ambitious men into a wilting mass of uselessness.

There are call centres, credit card sales. Be open-minded and things work out.' 'Finish engineering and join a call centre?' 'Dude, don't be so shocked. We, like millions of other students, are the losers in the Great Indian Education Race. Be happy with whatever you get.

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