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Quotes About Ambition

Live the life you always wanted to live. Avoid criticizing others and concentrate on fulfilling your dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever
~ Paulo Coelho
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that good enough is very different from best.
~ Paulo Coelho
Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Our dreams are our own, and only we can know the effort required to keep them alive.
~ Paulo Coelho
Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
~ Paulo Coelho
Follow your dreams and take your risks.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice. That way, we avoid all the risks, frustrations and difficulties, and when we are old, we can always blame other people - preferably our parents, our spouses or our children - for our failure to realise our dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
When we want something, we have to have a clear purpose in mind for the thing that we want. The only reason for seeking a reward is to know what to do with that reward
~ Paulo Coelho
He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dreamed of.
~ Paulo Coelho
People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.
~ Paulo Coelho
life is really generous to those who pursue their Personal Legend
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreamers can't be tamed.
~ Paulo Coelho
Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it
~ Paulo Coelho
If you can dream, you can do.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life is a fast, dizzing game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.
~ Paulo Coelho
If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's better to live cherishing a dream than face the possibilty that it might all come to nothing.
~ Paulo Coelho
La vida es un juego fuerte y alucinante, la vida es lanzarse en paracaídas, es arriesgarse, caer y volver a levantarse, es alpinismo, es querer subir a lo alto de uno mismo, y sentirse insatisfecho y angustiado cuando no se consigue.
~ Paulo Coelho
Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.
~ Paulo Coelho
One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought that was just the way life was. My life and everybody else's.
~ Paulo Coelho
The reason why people fail to achieve their dreams is because they stop pursuing them.
~ Paulo Coelho
Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.
~ Paulo Coelho