Quotes About Ambition

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

You don't have to be the smartest person to become successful and wealthy. Many of the most successful and wealthy people in society are not the most educated people.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Una mujer solo retrocede para coger carrerilla

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

Pues la ambición sólo se inflama ante lo azaroso del éxito y el logro fácil, pero nada eleva el corazón de modo tan espléndido como la caída de un hombre en lucha contra el predominio invencible del destino. Esa es la más grandiosa tragedia de todos los tiempos, la que de cundo en cuando logra crear algún poeta, y la vida miles de veces.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.)

What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes? p. 6, Double Duce

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.

I feel like a tent that wants to be a kite, tugging at my stakes.

What is this longing, she will want to ask. This troubling feeling of more to come. You can make something out of it, I want to tell her. But that's what her life is for.

If a holy man eats half his loaf, he will give the other half to a beggar. But if a king conquers all the world, he will still seek another world to conquer. —SAADI, PERSIAN POET

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition

I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.