Quotes About Ambition

But when I got to what I thought was the finish line, at the end of that hustling road, there was no winning—

there was nothing but a steep cliff. And all the dudes who were hustling with me, one by one they kept falling off that cliff.

to be all the fuck that I can be, you know?

got a full-time job in there paying me about thirty cents an hour. When I wasn't working in the laundry, I started writing and recording songs. This dude I met had a little cassette recorder, and over the years I recorded something like sixty songs. I studied all the rappers I loved and really

I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita ' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.

You just can't let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have only twenty options.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds. 'Why?' someone asked him. 'To squeeze out the rain.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Si buscas pequeñas cosas que hacer, y las haces bien, grandes cosas te buscarán y exigirán que las realices.

El objetivo del estudio Sufi preparatorio, sin embargo, es ilustrar, mostrar y neutralizar la ambición superficial.

Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.

Si siempre intentas hacer lo que QUIERES, a menudo estarás sacrificando lo que PUEDES hacer.

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

Status seekers, I never cared Once I found out they never dared To seize the world and shake it upside down And every stinking bum should wear a crown

Oamenii lumii, care se las? condu?i de sentimentele pe care lumea le inspir?, iubesc ?i urm?resc cu mult? însufle?ire onoarea, faima, str?lucirea unui nume mare printre semeni.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

clouds very high look not one word helped them get up there