Quotes About Ambition

He looks on an education only as a magic formula, which should enable him to go through life without work.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there.

I have reached far beyond my competence and have probably secured for good a reputation for flamboyant gestures. But the times still crowd me and give me no rest, and I see no way to avoid ambitious synthetic attempts; either we get some kind of grip on the accumulation of thought or we continue to wallow helplessly, to starve amidst plenty. So I gamble with science and write.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

You ought to dream.

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

I wanted it so much. I don't know why I wanted it so much.

I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was. I know now, anyway, he thought. I wish I could show him what sort of man I am. But then he would see the cramped hand. Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

What do you want? Everything. I want everything and I will take whatever I get.

It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil

There is not much future in men being friends with a great woman although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and there is usually even less future with truly ambitious women writers.

Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky, he thought.

There is not much future in men being friends with great women although it can be pleasant enough before it gets better or worse, and there is usually even less future with truly ambitious women writers.

They all wanted something that i did not want and i would get it without wanting it, if it worked.

Ambition...the original of vices; Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit

Churchill drank twice what I did if you could believe the accounts and he had just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I was simply trying to step up my drinking to a reasonable amount when I might win the Prize myself; who knows?

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

I had hoped for something. Defeat? No. Something more. There isn't anything more. Except victory. It may be worse.

Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Quisiera ser el pez - pensó - con todo lo que tiene frente a mi voluntad y mi inteligencia solamente.