Quotes About Ambition

am a journalist. But like all journalists I wish to write literature

Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

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.

A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.

You ought to dream," Bill said. "All our biggest business men have been dreamers. Look at Ford. Look at President Coolidge. Look at Rockefeller. Look at Jo Davidson.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Only the impossible is ever worth doing at all.

We can have everything. No, we can't. We can have the whole world. No, we can't. We can go everywhere. No, we can't. It isn't ours any more. Its ours. No, it isn't.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth

No dreaming may stand still, for this bodes no good. But if it becomes a dreaming ahead, then its cause appears quite differently and excitingly alive. The dim and weakening features, which may be characteristic of mere yearning, disappears; and then yearning can show what it really is able to accomplish.

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Si un día hemos de tener una conversación con Dios acerca de la medida de nuestras vidas, yo prefiero que Él me pregunte por qué intenté hacer demasiado, en lugar de que me pregunte por qué me conformé con tan poco.

no preferirías errar por pedir demasiado que por pedir muy poco?

he never discouraged the disciples from wanting to be first; he just told them what first looks like in his economy: If you want to be first, then you must be last. If you want to be first, you must become the servant of all. He didn't try to diminish their ambition; he tried to redirect their intention.

Un sabio, sí, era un sabio quien por primera vez alzó en su mente y con su lengua expresó que la boda con un igual es lo mejor, con mucho, y que ni con quienes por su riqueza viven en la molicie ni con quienes por su linaje están ensoberbecidos, cuando uno es un jornalero, ha de ambicionar casarse...

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living. —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Monogamy is the sacred cow of the romantic ideal, for it confirms our specialness. Infidelity says, You're not so special after all. It shatters the grand ambition of love.

Oscar Wilde wrote, "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When our desires are unfulfilled, we

a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies

Don't you find it odd...that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

Could she ever be, would she be, where she was going?