Quotes About Ambition

I would rather have a Hemingwayesque failure than a Juhaszian success.

Some men,' they said, `are born princes, and some raise themselves by their talents to be kings among men.

He aims at too great perfection. He wants to know everything and do everything, and life is too short for that. He finishes nothing, because he is ever starting to do something else.

Is there aught that thou canst not do if thou hast but the will?

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate.

Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying you can never change your fate. Isn't that true?

Wealth and beauty-whatever dangers they brought, one never wished them away.

You can become rich easily but it's quite hard to become bourgeois

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

Dreams are a never ending portal.

I'm happy for all who reached for the stars happily and successfully.

Play to win because almost doesn't cut it.

The future is a convenient place for dreams

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.

He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

The reason that most people don't possess these extraordinary physical capabilities isn't because they don't have the capacity for them, but rather because they're satisfied to live in the comfortable rut of homeostasis and never do the work that is required to get out of it. They live in the world of "good enough.

In 1920, shortly before he died, he was quoted in the New York Times saying, "My life was never destined to be quite happy. . . . Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness. It is as certain a death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.

It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt that nothing would hold you back, nothing, not even me. . . . You could never see this star as I do. You don't understand: It's like the heart of a heartless flower.

Desiring money kills desire. Money kills desire.

He would have liked it if everyone could have what he dreamed, glory and love, fortune and peace of heart. [On F. Scott Fitzgerald]

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Todo es tuyo. A todo tienes derecho y cóbralo caro.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.