Quotes About Ambition

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on. I didn't see this at first. And for a while after I knew it, I pretended I didn't. I didn't want it to be true.

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars

The story of Thomas Day's quest to create a perfect wife symbolizes an eternal human desire: to craft a supreme being

If I look into the wings, I can see Mom standing like a statue, Medea or Lady Macbeth, one of those tragic horrors, her face zombified by the steely reflected light from my funeral pyre.

but she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, Photography allowed me to make the world and be in the world.

Walt had done something new, something big, just as he always hoped he would. And it was just the beginning.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.

Your ambition has cost you dear, sir," Hal said, trying to keep a rein on his fury. In victory a true warrior must show forbearance, his father had once said. He must not give in to the base instinct for revenge.

Os calculistas, aqueles que vêem a vida como um jogo de astúcia que depende de uma cuidadosa avaliação de modos e meios, sempre sabem para onde estão indo e conseguem chegar lá. (...) Mas quando se trata de forças dinâmicas da vida e daqueles que personificam essas forças, tudo se torna mais difícil. As pessoas que desejam apenas atingir a auto-realização jamais sabem para onde estão indo. Nem podem sabê-lo.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.

Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates.

When I introspect I perceive not merely sensations and ideas but desire, will, ambition, and pride as vital phases of me. Spinoza was right: "desiderium ipsa essentia hominis"—desire is the very essence of man. We are living flames of desire until we admit final defeat. Will is desire expressed in ideas that become actions unless impeded by contrary or substitute desires and ideas. Character is the sum of our desires, fears, propensities, habits, abilities, and ideas.

he loved wisdom too much to be a "successful" man.

Those who desire immortality must pay for it with their lives.

The man who does not wish to be merely one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

the only difference in motive between the rich man and ourselves is seldom a difference in scruples, but is usually a difference in opportunity and skill.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them. Nothing