Quotes About Ambition

Wings of a half finished book across his chest.

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

Julia Bloch: 43. Wife of Jacob. Architect, although secretly ashamed of referring to herself as such, given that she's never built a building. Immensely talented, tragically overburdened, perpetually unappreciated, seasonally optimistic. Often wonders if all it would take to completely change her life would be a complete change of context.

Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?

In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn't, because there aren't enough skulls!

Ai carti publicate? - Nu, dar sunt inca foarte tanar. - Ai povestiri publicate? - Nu. Ma rog, una sau doua. - Cum sunt intitulate? - Las-o balta. - Asta-i un titlu clasa-ntaia.

When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.

asked me, "what were the usual causes or motives that made one country go to war with another?"  I answered "they were innumerable; but I should only mention a few of the chief.  Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern; sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war, in order to stifle or divert the clamour of the subjects against their evil administration. 

Caesar freely confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.

nunca acreditávamos ter muito dinheiro e que, quanto mais tínhamos, mais queríamos ter;

Un hombre sabe tocar, otro puede hacer de un pueblo una gran ciudad, y el que no puede hacer ni una cosa ni otra merece que le echen del mundo a patadas; evitar este castigo a sido sin duda lo que ha dado lugar al nacimiento del reino de los críticos.

I have already told you Father, more than once: I'm not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I'm not going to bury myself in some planter's kitchen, and I'm not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

Y es el sentido común el que, sin lugar a dudas, nos grita desde nuestro yo interno más sabio: ¡Utilizá todo lo que tenés para redoblar tu posibilidad de llegar adonde querés!

Nada me obliga a seguir adelante, nada que no sea mi propio deseo de hacerlo.

Los sueños se van desechando y los que quedan se dejan para después. Si uno no se pone en la tarea de realizarlos, el castillo se desmorona sin siquiera haberlo construido.

He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do.

Mi empresa no es difícil, esencialmente. Me bastaría ser inmortal para llevarla a cabo. Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote

Yo he escrito también algunos cuentos en los cuales traté ambiciosa e inultimente de ser Kafka

Me moría por terminar el bachillerato y empezar la universidad. Luego, moría por terminar la universidad y empezar a trabajar. Después, me moría por casarme y tener hijos. Más adelante, me moría por que mis hijos crecieran lo suficiente como para ir a la escuela, a fin de que yo pudiera volver a mi trabajo. Luego me moría por retirarme. Y ahora que estoy muriéndome, me doy cuenta, de pronto, ¡que me olvidé de vivir! [Autor anónimo]

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave.

You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is.

We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows