Quotes About Ambition

Convinced he knew the direction of success, keenly aware of his own age and finite opportunities, and—if for no clear reason—seeing himself as a talented political infighter, Bannon sought to draw the line between believers and sell-outs, being and nothingness.

just when you felt on top of the world in the Trump administration, you could probably count on getting cut down. That was the pattern and price of one-man leadership—insecure-man leadership.

were ready to lose with fire and fury. They were not ready to win.

It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an opportunity for your enemies.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Men in general don't know how to live: they have no true familiarity with life, and never feel entirely at ease in it, so they pursue different projects, more or less ambitious and more or less grandiose – generally speaking, of course, they fail and reach the conclusion that they would have been better off just living, but as a rule by that point it's too late.

În general, oamenii nu È™tiu s? tr?iasc?, nu se pun de acord cu viaÈ›a, nu se simt bine cu adev?rat în aceast? via??, aÈ™a încât ticluiesc diferite proiecte, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in ambiÈ›ioase, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in m?reÈ›e, dup? caz, È™i, de obicei, dau greÈ™, ajungând la concluzia c? ar fi fost mai bine, pur È™i simplu, s? tr?iasc?, dar, tot de obicei, e prea târziu pentru aÈ™a ceva.

A life lived in pursuit of a goal leaves little time for reminiscence.

Il n'y a pas beaucoup à gagner dans ce monde

Una vida volcada hacia una meta deja poco sitio para el recuerdo

Les hommes en géneral ne savent pas vivre, ils n'ont aucune vraie familiarité avec la vie, ils ne s'y sentent jamais tout à fait à leur aise, aussi poursuivent-ils différents projets, plus ou moins ambitieux plus ou moins grandioses c'est selon, en géneral bien entendu ils échouent et parviennent à la conclusion qu'ils aurait mieux fait, tout simplement, de vivre, mais en général il est trop tard.

After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived—on a scale that surprised me.

Qui moétais-je pour avoir cru que je pouvais changer quelque chose au mouvement du monde ?

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

There is a graceless human tendency to wish upon others the ills visited upon oneself. Instead of pointing successors towards short cuts, you relish seeing them clambering through identical hoops.

I'm going to do what you did," it ran, "only I'm going to do it quicker, better and for more money. Because I'm me.

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.

Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.