Quotes About Ambition

Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

that alertness for measuring and weighing event against eventuality, circumstance against human nature, his own fallible judgement and mortal clay against not only human but natural forces, choosing and discarding, compromising with his dream and his ambition like you must with the horse which you take across country, over timber, which you control only through your ability to keep the animal from realizing that actually you cannot, that actually it is the stronger.

At least this will be my chance to find out if I am what I think I am or if I just hope; if I am going to do what I have taught myself is right or if I am just going to wish I were.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Garip ÅŸey, derdin ne olursa olsun erkekler sana diÅŸlerini muayene ettir der, kad?nlar da evlen der. Hayat?nda hiçbir ÅŸeyi baÅŸaramam?? bir adam kalkar sana iÅŸini nas?l yöneteceÄŸini anlat?r. Bir çift çorab? olmayan üniversite profesörlerinin on y?lda nas?l milyoner olunaca??n? ve ömründe bir koca bulamam?? bir kad?n?n aileye nas?l bak?laca??n? anlatmas?na benzer bu.

I'm fifty; all I know is that people nineteen years old will do anything, and that the only thing which makes the adult world at all safe from them is the fact that they are so preconceived of success that the simple desire and will are the finished accomplishment, that they pay no attention to mere dull mechanical details.

A novelist is a failed short story writer, and a short story writer is a failed poet.

He…who had not waited for Time and its furniture to teach him that the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

La sabiduría suprema es tener sueños lo bastante grandes para no perderlos de vista mientras se persiguen

I made a fair job and I hope you will buy it and tell your friends and I hope they will buy it too.

It beats all how some folks think that making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.

the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it... (Sartoris)

success and like free enterprise and all

His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce.

I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had turned up just when he needed something to get him going, something to aim for. So he'd set her up as a symbol for everything he wanted and couldn't have, everything he'd had and couldn't keep.

Once again, then," she said, "the divide between the ambitions of conspirators and the desire, among those bringing us word of those ambitions, to preserve whatever aspect of the status quo they themselves hold dear.

She wondered how powerful money could actually be, if one had enough of it, really enough. She supposed that only the Vireks of the world could really know, and very likely they were functionally incapable of knowing; asking Virek would be like interrogating a fish in order to learn more about water.

Spire stood on spire in gleaming ziggurat steps that climbed to a central golden temple tower ringed with the crazy radiator flanges of the Mongo gas stations.

Fox was quick to see how we could use you, but not sharp enough to credit you with ambition. But then he never lay all night with you on the beach at Kamakura, never listened to your nightmares, never heard an entire imagined childhood shift under those stars, shift and roll over, your child's mouth opening to reveal some fresh past, and always the one, you swore, that was really and finally the truth.

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.

The two boys faced each other. There was a brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common sense.

No, I don't need sleep. Failures don't need sleep. Anyway, I slept yesterday.

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it. Maybe he figured if he didn't do it, nobody would, or maybe he was just trying to give the reviewers a helping hand; I don't know.

Perhaps one of my own advisors will grow jealous of my power and try to kill me. Or someone may spread lies about me, to turn the people against me. It may be that a neighboring kingdom will send an army to seize this throne. Or I might make an unwise decision that will bring my downfall. If you want to be a leader, you must be willing to accept these risks. They come with the power, you see.