Quotes About Ambition

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Triple T, K A.... time to totally kick ass.

Look up more than you look around.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Humans have these notions of power, control, hierarchy, greed, anger, envy, lust, etc. It really is quite bizarre where these tendencies lead us. We have human billionaires on planet earth who choose to gather more and more wealth at the expense of everyone else. But why? Once all of a person's human needs have been supplied, to unimaginable levels of luxury, what is the point of having more? To have power and control over other humans?

In fact, what makes Wallace the ultimate demagogue is that, behind his indefatigable scrambling, his ferocious concentration, his inexhaustible ambition, there seems to lurk a secret, desperate suspicion that facing him, aside from and beyond his political existence, is nothingness- an empty, terrible white blank. It's as if, when the time finally arrives for him to cease to be a politician, he will simply cease to be.

You can continue doing what you're doing for a long time. But you'll never become the person you want to be.

the willpower we assume when we set a goal rarely measures up to the willpower we display in achieving that goal.

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, He said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?" —Leonard Cohen, "Bird on a Wire

If we're satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we've exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we've always done.

As a general rule, people in their 20s want to learn on the job. In their 30s they want to advance. And in their 40s they want to rule. No matter what their age, though, understanding their desires is like trying to pin down mercury.

If you press people to identify the motives behind their self-interest it usually boils down to four items: money, power, status, and popularity.

People always live badly today; they only live well tomorrow. For the sake of ambition they strive against each other with evil deeds, but the path to glory would be easier to tread by doing good to one another. Although they always speak evil, they hope to be well spoken of themselves; although they do evil, they hope to receive good. We proclaim that we are the authors of good, but that God is the author of evil.

estaba convencido de que triunfar en este mundo que a él le parecía una mierda era una forma de equivocarse.

I am also struck by how much the poet knew her own mind, both in terms of her need for solitude and what she hoped to achieve in her work.

I like the place because, first and foremost, the beer is of excellent quality, and secondly, because the name is a reminder that greatness often has a cost. Few people accomplish anything of merit without sacrifice." Shay shrugged. "True enough, but some people don't seek greatness." "Alas, sometimes greatness is thrust upon people.

I have no intention of being a footnote in someone else's life." [on being a war correspondent during WWII]

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.

I'll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

I didn't know what that meant, but it was a good job title and honestly it made me a little jealous.