Quotes About Ambition

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

If a dream is in your heart, you never lose it.

Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

What do you want?" in a curt hard voice, which he had practised in his room in private, and before the looking-glass, for a whole week before being raised to his present rank.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

And at such moments his eyes would grow winning, and his features assume an expression of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass beyond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth page permanently turned down. It was a book which he had been reading for the past two years!

with thousands it's hard to be quite sinless, but to make millions is easy. A millionaire has no need to resort to crooked ways. Just go on and take the straight road, take all that lies before you! No one else will pick it up.

If what you want, ... is to get rich quickly, then you'll never get rich; but if you want to get rich without asking about time, you'll get rich quickly.

income, income is what these patriots want! Mother, father, God—they'll sell them all for money, the ambitious Judases! It's all ambition,

De que modo estranho e incompreensível o destino brinca connosco! Será que alguma vez alcançamos aquilo que almejamos? Será que conseguimos aquilo que, parece, as nossas forças foram expressamente preparadas? Tudo se passa ao contrário.

She gave in to the pride of a society beauty, and she became determined to become the best among the worst, whose circle she was entering

Reach what you cannot

The modern world may not know how to phrase the question, but it wants its own realistic recipe for Purpose. Competition has done us a lot of good in the last half-century, but one question remains inadequately addressed: "What are we competing for?

Purpose is one that adopts a valued end result for human activity, over a person's lifetime or the lifetime of an organization.

Every man first wish is if all wishes will be reality

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

I see the kind of determination you only recognize if you've felt it yourself. Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.

Determination born of desperation transformed into purpose.