Quotes About Ambition

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

There was no ambition to be famous, no desire to have pieces played by famous orchestras, no secret wish for commissions or prizes or for being "taken up" by prominent art lovers. I simply hoped I could learn to do something well.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Querer ganar en el juego sin ninguna carta en la mano, ni buena ni mala. Sin ánimos, tampoco, de ser espectadora. Sin ánimos, ni siquiera eso, de confesarme que me hastían el juego, las cartas, los jugadores y los espectadores.

Es asombrosa esa manera que tenéis los soñadores de no ver claro más que lo que está lejos.

Los hombres nobles eluden un esfuerzo realizando otro mucho mayor. Por no arrancar una rosa, construyen un palacio. Por no escuchar un reproche, ejercen la rectitud toda la vida. Por no bajarse del caballo, conquistan el Asia.

When the bullseye becomes as big as an elephant in your mind, you won't be able to miss it.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The world is always greater then your desires; plenty is never enough.

Ose?ao se gospodarem vremena i preko njega gospodarem znanja, a kako je verovao da znanje otvara vrata svakoj težnji za boljitkom, ose?ao se i gospodarem svoje sudbine.

When women saw her photo and heard her life story, they clamored to take her course and sit for her treatments. The twin promises of enhanced beauty and financial gain—not to mention Madam Walker's own phenomenal personal example—served as a magnet to women who had always believed they would never be more than maids and laundresses.

Man's desires are greater than the earth. The end of his desires only ends with his end.

Come inferiri, l'inchinavano anche quelli que da questi eran detti signori; ché, in que' contorni, non ce n'era uno che potesse, amille miglia, competer con lui, di nome, di ricchezze, d'aderenze e della voglia di servirsi si tutto ciò, per istar al di sopra degli altri.

He aspired to a higher post, once it became vacant, and feared that time was running out. If he got what he wanted, you can be sure that his age would no longer matter to him. He would want nothing more, and he would die happy, as everyone assures us they will the moment they attain something they have wanted badly.

And she would do great things.

This country was not built... by men who sought handouts. John Galt speech, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve

Yet he was as directionless as ever. The gap between her success and his stillborn career had grown painful. And they needed him to make some decent money.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

Origins should never be a barrier to success. A modest start in life can be a help more than a hindrance.

For me drive means a combination of a willingness to work hard, emotional fortitude, enormous powers of concentration and a refusal to admit defeat.