Quotes About Ambition

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money. It is because we are meaning-focused animals..

Knowing that something difficult is being attempted doesn't rob the wise of ambition, but it makes them more steadfast, calmer and less prone to panic about the problems that will invariably come their way. The wise rarely expect anything to be wholly easy or to go entirely well.

He will surmise that love can endure only when one is unfaithful to its beguiling opening ambitions, and that, for his relationships to work, he will need to give up on the feelings that got him into them in the first place. He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

read the blueprint, to see your dream in black and

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

Asked where his inspiration came from, he said fiercely: 'It doesn't come, Your Majesty. You have to go out and fetch it.

I think of literature,' she wrote, 'as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but will never reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

Her depression had given way to a characteristic determination. "I may never leave Kalaupapa," she told Kenji, "but a part of me is damn well getting out of here." Her husband agreed. Once he'd aspired to make his mark on the world. "This," he admitted, "is the only way I ever will.

And sometimes—as on the morning of April 1, 1946—she would dream again of being

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks, circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

The best way to get what you want is to be what you are.

Putting your foot down is a prerequisite to stepping ahead

What you love to do the most is the shortest distance between where you are now and your dreams.

To be all that we were meant to be and to do all that we were meant to do, is the only end in life. — Spinoza

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

It wasn't the thought of death or the failure of their mission that troubled him as he sat there and played. It was a fear of personal failure, a fear that had haunted him since he'd been a child. It was the fear which had driven him to pursue two different careers without being able to choose between them. And though he didn't realize it, it was the fear which had driven more men and women to greatness than far more rational motivations… .

Well, he thought, one did what one had to do, so life went. No, one did what one had to do in order to do what one wanted to do - so life really went.

I should have written books instead of reading them.

despite finishing first in my class at Yale Law School, I was rejected by all 32 of the law firms to which I applied.