Quotes About Ambition

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No writer ever truly succeeds. The disparity between the work conceived and the work completed is always too great, and the writer merely achieves an acceptable level of failure.

with the great love of the unknown and vast dreams of dominion and power

With money you were a succesful man, without it you were a failure.

There's a will, there's a way my friend.

Joseph had graduated from high school, but did not want to go to school anymore. He had met Sofia, and he wanted to work and save so he could settle down with her. He, like his brothers, had had enough of living under Julian's tyrannical rule. Joseph lived with Robert until Robert secured a job in Morinze, Arizona, a four-hour drive from El Paso. Joseph then began living with Sofia, his childhood sweetheart.

Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences.

To truly understand Alexander we must realize that—perhaps more than any man in history—he hated to lose. Alexander was and is the absolute embodiment of pure human ambition with all its good and evil consequences. We can condemn the death and destruction he left in his wake as he strode across the world like a colossus, but in the end we can't help but admire a man who dared such great deeds.

At last, his companions approached his bedside and implored him to name his successor: To whom do you leave your kingdom? They leaned close to hear his words. With great effort Alexander answered in a whisper: To the strongest. With that, the king of the world closed his eyes and breathed his last.

Jak raz, na pocz?tku trafi si? do jakiej? szufladki, rzadko znajdzie si? sposób, ?eby wspi?? si? wy?ej.

Many males who we have surveyed said they felt most like a man when they were honest about who they were, confidently made decisions and actively pursued their dreams.

The people there were obsessed with gold. They were convinced they were going to make a fortune, and some of them did, but they also spent it.

They said I lacked ambition, which wasn't true. They confused contentment for stagnation, a common mistake.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Marketing is a race without a finishing line

My mother carried on and supported us her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Be wise;Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

The writing of contemporary history can be among the most treacherous of ambitions. Everybody knows we never appreciate what we have till it's gone; that the owl of Minerva flies at dusk; that familiarity breeds contempt; and so forth.

All it wants is to explode.' 'Nice to have an ambition in life, I suppose.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.