Quotes About Ambition

But I am not quite Jane Austen yet and there are limits to what I can stand.

Porque una debe de hundirse en el abismo si quiere elevarse a las alturas.

La société démocratique, où toutes les fonctions sont formellement ouvertes à tous, suscite les espoirs et les ambitions. Elle multiplie en conséquence, à tous les niveaux le nombre des déçus et des humiliés.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Because what's the meaning of doing dishes if you're not driven by something beyond necessity.

The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.

Maybe he didn't want that life after all, starting over broke, hailing a cab in a busy intersection filled with jockeying junior executives, arms aloft, bodies smartly spinning to cover every compass point. What did he want that was not posthumous? He stared into space. He understood what was missing, the predatory impulse, the sense of large excitation that drove him through his days, the sheer and reeling need to be.

heat that rots ambition and stuns the intellect and will.

He had ambitions on my behalf and more or less at my expense. This is the custom among men who have failed to be heroes; their sons must prove that the seed was not impoverished.

She wanted to create her future, not enter a state already shaped to her outline.

Frustration is oftentimes a wonderful alternative to complacency.

Initiative doesn't cost a thing, feel free to take all you want.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Unless it is your ambition to become a nightclub performer and amaze people with great skills of memory, here is a simpler way to dramatically enhance both memory and accuracy: write things down. Writing is a powerful technology: why not use it? Use a pad of paper, or the back of your hand. Write it or type it. Use a phone or a computer. Dictate it. This is what technology is for. The unaided mind is surprisingly limited. It is things that make us smart. Take advantage of them.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next morning elated for another try.

Anyone ambitious, who lives to be old or even old , endures the inevitable loss of ambition's fulfillment.

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage. My

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Most people think small because they are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning.

Luck does not come around often. So when it does, be sure to take full advantage of it, even if it means working very hard. When luck is on your side it is not the time to be modest or timid. It is the time to go for the biggest success you can possibly achieve. That is the true meaning of thinking big.

Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.

Use your work to better yourself. You

you must work on improving your skills every day and never quit. In