Quotes About Ambition

The problem is the inability to close the gap between what we genuinely, even passionately, want and what we are actually able to do.

A reason or a purpose is a combination of wants and don't wants.

Choice, not circumstances, determines your success.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Os empregados buscam segurança; os empreendedores buscam liberdade.

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If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. —  If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss

I took a telephone call from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He told me that he was the one who had talked Obama into running for president (a lot of people were claiming that) but there was no candidate for vice president. Reid said he was thinking about me, and that was the reason for the call. It took a lot of willpower for me to keep from bursting out laughing.

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Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

How little one knows what one knows, or wants what one wants.

E de facto bem pode dizer-se que as ideias inesperadas nos vêm porque estávamos à espera delas. São, em grande parte, o resultado conseguido de um carácter, de certas inclinações constantes, de uma ambição tenaz, de uma incessante ocupação com elas. Que tédio, uma perseverança assim!

For when we lie nowadays it is not so much out of weakness as out of a conviction that a man cannot prevail in life unless he is able to lie.

Sobald jemand im dem Rufe steht, ein Napoleon zu sein, gewinnt er auch seine verlorenen Schlachten.

At this point he quit, right in the middle of an important and promising piece of work. He now saw his colleagues partly as relentless, obsessive public prosecutors and security chiefs of logic, and partly as opium eaters, addicts of some strange pale drug that filled their world with visions of numbers and abstract relations. God help me, he thought, surely I never could have meant to spend all my life as a mathematician?

Ich bin immer in einem Mann-Mannesverhältnis zu den sogenannten großen Ideen gestanden; vielleicht auch zu den mit Recht so genannten: Ich glaube mich nicht zur Unterordnung geboren, sie haben mich gereizt, sie zu stürzen und andere an ihrer Stelle zu setzen. Ja, vielleicht bin ich gerade von dieser Eifersucht zur Wissenschaft geführt worden, deren Gesetze man in Gemeinschaft sucht und auch nicht für unverbrüchlich ansieht.

He was a lawyer now and it had taken him a long time. It had taken him a long time because he had had to be a lawyer on his own terms and in his own way. But that was over. But maybe it had taken him too long. If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting. In the end they just ask you those crappy little questions.

But it wasn't a Primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the backroom of Casey's Saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the walls. And there wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes, and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood.

You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

He's interested in Willie. Quite simply and directly. And when anybody is interested in himself quite simply and directly the way Willie is interested in Willie you call it genius. It's only the half-baked people like Mr. Patton who are interested in money. Even the big boys who make a real lot of money aren't interested in money. Henry Ford isn't interested in money. He is interested in Henry Ford and therefore he is a genius.

When you try to climb a mountain to prove how big you are, you almost never make it. And even if you do it's a hollow victory. In order to sustain the victory you have to prove yourself again and again in some other way, and again and again and again, driven forever to fill a false image, haunted by the fear that the image is not true and someone will find out.

I may not have proved a great explorer but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. -Robert Scott-

I can!" Marvin said. "And by the Christo malherido, I'm going to!

He was looking for a vehicle of purpose, for a vessel to contain his formless ambitions and abilities.