Quotes About Ambition

Yo que detesto el domingo porque está hueco Yo, que quiero la cosa más primordial porque es la fuente de la generación -yo que ambiciono beber agua en el manantial de la fuente-, yo que soy todo eso, debo por falta y trágico destino conocer tan sólo y experimentar tan sólo los ecos de mí, porque no capto el mí propiamente dicho.

I, who manufacture the future like a diligent spider. And the best of me is when I know nothing and manufacture whatever.

Not to be devoured is the secret objective of a whole existence.

Si fuese protegida por Ulises todavía más de lo que era, ambicionaría pronto lo máximo: ser protegida hasta el punto de no temer ser libre: pues de sus huidas de libertad tendría siempre de donde volver.

Uma jovem mulher cheia do próprio destino

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.

You have to think big to be big.

Nothing that is mine seems to me to deserve my pride: in the seventh grade, I couldn't admire the eighth-grades enough, though the eighth grade seemed to me quite devoid of charm once I was in it. And so on until the day I found myself with a doctorate in something and decorated, and had only scorn for such mediocre privileges. Life grows disenchanting as our dreams are fulfilled.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

Hold up, did you just hear, did you just say, did you just see, did you just do that? Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.

For so long you thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase you as a person. After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered hypervisible in the face of such language acts. Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are present. Your alertness, your openness, and your desire to engage actually demand your presence, your looking up, your talking back, and, as insane as it is, saying please.

it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment.

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.

Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He

If you take big risks there are big rewards.

The secret of success isn't knowing what you want, it is knowing what you don't want.

Five personalities were being selected to serve in a public office: a politician, a philanthropist, a doctor, a teacher and a farmer. The first four know their plans in life while the last one is living without many plans. The farmer won by election. It is because the farmer wants to do more than what others have already done.

Education is immaterial only when you know that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

The journey in life never stops as long as you look forward.