Quotes About Ambition

Era necesario confrontar sus sueño con la realidad aún a riesgo de verlos fracasar?

You fight to win. Honor, fair play, and nobility are things that you use to wipe your ass with. Second place is in the morgue.

I need to complicate everything to protect myself from success and to remain complicated and overwhelmed. I

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

warlord who would later become king of Norway.

once in power he soon embarked upon a plan far more ambitious than that of any of his predecessors.

but the immediate prospect of being elevated above his Anglo-Saxon peers.

decided he would rather not relinquish his position, and was plotting to prevent his father's return

for those at the bottom of the ladder,

and in witnessing the same grant he went even further, referring to himself as 'king of Britain'.

willing to gamble that war would make them richer.

What they sought in the first instance was moveable wealth – gold, silver and slaves.

that only those who dare, who demanded more of themselves than others believed possible, could make great things happen.

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write. But as soon as I asked myself the question, and tried to discover some subject to which I could impart a philosophical significance of infinite value, my mind would stop like a clock, my consciousness would be faced with a blank, I would feel either that I was wholly devoid of talent or perhaps that some malady of the brain was hindering its development.

Hoeveel bedroevender nog dan vroeger vond ik het sedert die dag (...) dat ik geen aanleg voor schrijven had en ervan moest afzien ooit een beroemde schrijver te worden.

Dreams are not to be converted into reality, that we know; we would not form any, perhaps, were it not for desire, and it is useful to us to form them in order to see them fail and to be instructed by their failure.

Mme. de Gallardon, who could never stop herself from sacrificing her greatest social ambitions and highest hopes of someday dazzling the world to the immediate, obscure, and private pleasure of saying something disagreeable.

Desiring a will was not enough. I would have needed precisely what I could not have without willpower: a will.

they imagine that the life they are obliged to lead is not that for which they are really fitted, and they bring to their regular occupations either a fantastic indifference or a sustained and lofty application, scornful, bitter, and conscientious.

Ambition is more intoxicating than fame; desire makes all things blossom, possession wilts them; it is better to dream your life than to live it, even if living it means dreaming it, though both less mysteriously and less vividly, in a murky and sluggish dream, like the straggling dream in the feeble awareness of ruminant creatures.

But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet The dark unbottomed infinite abyss And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle?