Quotes About Ambition

And then there were the others, who were interested only in gold. They never found the secret. They forgot that lead, copper, and iron have their own Personal Legends to fulfill. And anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing never will discover his own." The

Je voulais comprendre pourquoi j'avais repoussè si longtemps mon plus grand rêves.je voulais surtout me prouver que j'ètais capable de garder cette flamme allumée.

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.' 

Apunta a la Luna y, si fallas, al menos estarás entre las estrellas.

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He had other fires and these flamed higher than Love.

When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.

His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.

He had collected from every place where he had hid his little stores of gain and he had borrowed all he could, and he could not even have had this except by bitter, frugal living.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.