Quotes About Ambition

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

If I can do it, I'll do it better than it was ever done before, and if I can't do that I'll quit to save you the embarrassment of firing me.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

there had to be more than Louisa would ever see in her life! And when you took into account

If you bite off more than you can chew, chew like bloody hell. Peter Brock

In his last incarnation, Collin sees only one position for himself: to serve the power that weighs on us all. He proposes to replace Bibi-Lupin as head of the Sûreté. "I have no other ambition than to be an instrument of law and repression instead of corruption. . . . I am the general of the underworld and I surrender.

Balzac clearly is haunted by these Faustian figures, who seek to go beyond what is permitted to ordinary humans, only to reach an impasse where their very medium of expression is blocked or destroyed.

You came back here that day with a word written on your forehead that I could read: 'Succeed! Succeed at any price.' " To which Vautrin responds: "Bravo! That's the kind of fellow I like." (SC 111/P 3:139) To revolt is to take destiny into your own hands by a decisive act.

This is why Rastignac's and Lucien's tailor thinks of himself as a "hyphen" between a young man's present and his future. Given the right outfit, a young man may be able to make a marriage that will put a reality behind his social appearance.

Some dreams you chase others chase you!

Putting new knowledge into a larger context helps learning. For example, the more of the unfolding story of history you know, the more of it you can learn. And the more ways you give that story meaning, say by connecting it to your understanding of human ambition and the untidiness of fate, the better the story stays with you.

A volte mi sembra che la terra non voglia che le cose durino, ma voglia che tutto crolli e che noi tutti che ne andiamo via. Che voglia tornare al principio, al giardino con i frutti e gli animali, prima che Dio diventasse ambizioso e rovinasse tutto. Avrebbe dovuto riposare al sesto giorno, non al settimo.

Ho solo diciotto anni. Come faccio a sapere cosa vorrò nella vita? Come faccio a sapere cosa mi servirà?

There is a point when life, having showered us with jewels for nothing, begins to exact our life's blood for paste.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She's just another cause fascist, son, and that's the worst kind; they always know they're right. Anyone who dissents for whatever reason is evil and an enemy, existing only to be crushed.

Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them. They become politicians.

We should take our time and reach the Dyson Pair as we expand naturally, not pull off this crazy Apollo stunt.

From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.

There was being a whore, and then there was just plain debasing yourself—but it had paid off.

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebody's head