Quotes About Ambition

O Time: hold still awhile. I have so much more work to do. There are so many things I want to express. But time just keeps ticking away, and the earth never for an instant ceases to turn.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

Our master Caesar is in the tent Where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head. Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.

Wings are needed in order to fly, but we don't need to fly anywhere. We have arrived at the terminus. We have found what we wanted.

The natural road from nothingness to greatness is to forget that one is a gram and to feel that one is one-million of a ton!

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can

he was then thirty-two, still too young to understand how limitless men's desires were, or the absurdity of such greed.

balance of the social energy, one said, and the other nodded and added that, indeed, to climb up in this country, you'd have to use someone else as a stepping stone. Neither bothered to take up his own past, as both understood that to be safe and sound in their age, they had had their share of bodies underneath their feet to keep them afloat, and those stories were no longer relevant, their shame and guilt absolved by old age.

Life is most difficult for those who know what they want and also know what makes it impossible for them to get what they want. Life is still difficult, but less so, for those who know what they want but have not realized that they will never get it. It is the least difficult for people who do not know what they want.

From the steam engine to the assembly line, from the double-rotary printing press to the communications satellite, the capital constraints on action were such that simply wanting to do something was rarely a sufficient condition to enable one to do it.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up someplace else.

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

If you don't know where you're going, you might wind up some place else.

If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.

Ambition and audacity show themselves also after having passed through thousands of difficulties and having overcome them all.

Celui que l'idée de la victoire hante réduit lui-même à néant ses capacités.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

The people I used to have around me from Nashville was showing love to the Cash Money clique on the strength of Buck trying to make it making sure Buck gets to where he gots to go.

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fires the greatest smoke.

Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears