Quotes About Ambition

Adam Rifkin

Sean Parker, and Half.com founder Josh Kopelman—not to

There are two Great Forces of human nature: Self Interest and Caring for Others, and people are most successful when they are driven by a Hybrid Engine of the two.' If Takers are selfish, and Failed Givers are selfless: Successful Givers are 'otherish' - They care about benefitting others, but they also have ambitious goals for advancing their own interests.

As pessoas muito bem-sucedidas apresentam três características em comum: motivação, capacidade e oportunidade. Para alcançar o sucesso, precisamos de combinar trabalho árduo, talento e sorte.

If only more people in life said, This is what I must have.

I know this," the Second Mate said. "A sexy girl thinks she can do anything.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

New Years resolution: be more awesome.

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!

I'm reaching toward something in a dark room. But I'm excited.

The Boov frowned. 'Everybodies always is wanting to make a clone for to doing their work. If you are not wanting to do your work, why would a clone of you want to do your work?

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.

Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.

Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back

You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.

In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

Create your own destiny!

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

I wanted to become a painter and no power in the world could force me to become a civil servant. The

Una alianza será tanto más fuerte cuanto mayor sea la expectativa de las partes contrayentes por lograr finalidades tangibles y de carácter expansivo.