Quotes About Ambition

La historia será amable conmigo, porque tengo intención de escribirla.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt, her aunt had once told her. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

Nothing can stop us now.

Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

Finally, he pulled out Edmond's cell phone and reread the Winston Churchill screen-saver quote about shaping one's own legacy. History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Do you have enemies Well! It means you were fighting for something in your life.

Goal setting is the strongest force for human motivation. Set a goal and make it come true.

You wanna grow up to be a trivia question? she asked, challenging me. Or do you wanna make a difference in the world?

To a friend, in an unguarded moment, he [Maxim Gorky, 1932] declared his ambition: simply to portray the world and man as they were, without the myth of love, 'repudiating noting, praising nothing'; repudiation was unjust, while praise was premature—'for we live in chaos and ourselves are fragments of chaos.' He compared his desire with Einstein, 'trying to alter radically our representation of the universe.

To a friend, in an unguarded moment, he [Maxim Gorky, 1932] declared his ambition: simply to portray the world and man as they were, without the myth of love, 'repudiating nothing, praising nothing'; repudiation was unjust, while praise was premature—'for we live in chaos and ourselves are fragments of chaos.' He compared his desire with Einstein, 'trying to alter radically our representation of the universe.

Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit!

Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear.

all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

You want to be a hero," he repeated. "You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create

beyond ideology and ambition, beyond thought and emotion, there was only pain. And salvation from it.

Why . . ." she begins. "Why do you want to climb it?" "Because it's there.

Agamemnon: Our prayer was simple — to raze Ilium's walls to its roots, kill its heroes, rape its women, enslave its people. Is that too much to ask?

The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual

No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives.

relationship between creatures and their creators, the love between parent and children, artists and their art, all creators and their creations. The poem celebrated love and loyalty but teetered on the brink of nihilism with its constant thread of corruption through love of power, human ambition and intellectual hubris. Martin

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