Quotes About Ambition

I didn't come from a lot. I had a lot of love and support from my family, but as far as money and that type of thing, I didn't really have any of that. All I did was follow my dreams. If my fans take anything from me, I hope it would be that.

I just want to make music that people hear, and I'm not ashamed of that.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

I will do my best so that I won't feel ashamed of myself in the future.

I want to win the Ashes.

Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux.

Women feel that when their power is greatest, they look their best, and that those are their happiest hours; they like power in men, and prefer the strongest even if it is a power that may be their own destruction. I am going to make an inventory of your desires in order to put the question at issue before you.

That fellow was partly the cause of his mother's death. He chose to be a commercial traveller; and the trade just suited him, for he was no sooner in the house than he wanted to be out of it; he couldn't keep in one place, and he wouldn't learn anything. All I ask of God is that I may die before he dishonors my name. Those who have no children lose many pleasures, but they escape great sufferings.

O problema da indumentária é aliás enorme para aqueles que desejam aparentar o que não têm, porque é quase sempre o melhor meio de vir a possuí-lo mais tarde.

Ön, ha fels?bbrend? ember, menjen egyenest emelt f?vel el?re. De meg kell majd küzdenie az irigységgel, a rágalommal, a középszer?séggel, az egész világgal.

It is not hope, but despair, which gives the measure of our ambitions. The finest poems of hope are sung in secret, but grief appears without a veil.

Tive agora a noção do que é ser pobre, ao desejar ter fortuna para dar ao meu filho

Un jeune homme se présenta pour être rédacteur de l'air timide et inquiet qu'avait Lucien naguère. Lucien vit avec un plaisir secret Giroudeau pratiquant sur le néophyte les plaisanteries par lesquelles le vieux militaire l'avait abusé ; son intérêt lui fit parfaitement comprendre la nécessité de ce manége, qui mettait des barrières presque infranchissables entre les débutants et la mansarde où pénétraient les élus.

Ambos, con el espíritu henchido de ansias de éxito, poseían esa elevada inteligencia que pone al hombre en un plano de igualdad con todas las eminencias, y se veían relegado a lo más bajo de la sociedad. Lo injusto de este destino fue un vínculo poderoso.

The common herd of humanity feels an involuntary respect for any person who can rise above it, and is not over-particular as to the means by which they rise.

whatever rung of the social ladder they are perched, when any interest, no matter what, draws them from their own line of obedience and induces them to grasp at power. In their eyes, as in those of politicians, all means to an end are justifiable

Si en aquel semblante se adivinaban los destellos del genio que emprende el vuelo, igualmente se veían las cenizas junto al volcán; y la esperanza se extinguía en un profundo sentimiento de nulidad social, en la que los orígenes oscuros y la falta de fortuna mantienen a tantos espíritus superiores.

mere boy, who dances badly; besides, he has no fortune. And, after all, papa, none of these people have titles. I want, at least, to be a countess like my mother.

Estos dos jóvenes juzgaban a la sociedad desde tanta más altura cuanto más abajo se encontraban situados en la escala social, ya que los hombres desconocidos se vengan de lo modesto de su posición con su elevación de miras.

That cursed ball! All the world thinks I am worth millions. Yet Lourdois had a look that was not natural; there's a snake in the grass somewhere.

Honoré de Balzac

What does Madame Schinner say to all this?" pursued the count; "for I believe you married, out of love, the beautiful Adelaide de Rouville, the protegee of old Admiral de Kergarouet; who, by the bye, obtained for you the order for the Louvre ceilings through his nephew, the Comte de Fontaine.

La santa criatura ignoraba que donde empieza la ambición cesan los sentimientos ingenuos.

Los hombres de genio no tenían hermanos ni hermanas, ni padres ni madres; las grandes obras que habrían de crear les imponían un egoísmo aparente al obligarles a sacrificarlo todo a su grandeza.