Quotes About Ambition

Todo era mucho más sencillo cuando no quería nada. Cuando quieres algo y no lo consigues...puedes convertirte en alguien muy cruel

Only when you are challenged—and only when you challenge yourself—do you discover what truly matters.

My ambition is to not embarrass myself--which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.

A man at the apprenticeship stage of a promising career may pursue only brief affairs, figuring that he will be able to attract a more desirable long-term mate later on, when his career is closer to its peak.

But there was also something swimming, an idea, a dream of what we were striving for and what it would look like when we got there. Then we got there, and it didn't look the same at all, somehow...Are all human beings malcontents?

So long as we are driven by the need to make up for our needs; by the restless sense that we are not yet fully assured of our place in the world and our hold on its swarming phenomena; so long as there is more to be discovered and made, more to grasp for and make real, we must go on inventing ourselves.

What he's about is destroying a government. Looking like a prime minister in waiting is a second-order consideration.

There is a story that some years ago an interested mother wrote to a principal of a school, 'Don't teach my boy poetry, he's going to run for Congress.' I've never taken the view that the world of politics and the world of poetry are so far apart." They are united, Kennedy suggests, because their greatness depends on "courage"—it is what makes, as Frost might put it, "all the difference.

Hoped if she kept the dream hidden and frozen She soon would forget that she'd never been chosen. But dreams screams as loud whether thriving or dying And Helen despite herself never stopped trying.

It seems frankly remarkable that anyone anywhere ever attempted anything.

Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being.

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.

clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something.

that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

Rather than admit defeat, I decided to change goals.

A person needed savings in order to move, but more than that he needed gumption.

Nobody dreams of the things he already has.

We sweat for our pretensions. It

Behind the naive vanities, the daydreams, they had very badly wanted to be writers. Had wanted it without knowing at all what it was they wanted, their fervor making up for their ignorance. His older self was cooler, more noncommittal, for he had learned that to publicize your goals means running the risk of falling short of them.

what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

A few weeks of fanfare and I'd drop show business, just like I had the guitar and my private detective agency. I hated having my life's ambition reduced to the level of a common cold. This wasn't a bug, but a full-fledged virus. It might lay low for a year or two, but this little germ would never go away. It has nothing to do with talent or initiative. Rejection couldn't weaken it, and no amount of success would ever satisfy it. Once diagnosed, the prognosis was terminal.

but that's what fantasies are for: they allow you to skip the degradation and head straight to the top.

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Even in a jar, that kid has outearned me.