Quotes About Ambition

Hard reality alone must mark the way to the goal. Unwillingness to walk the road of hardship means, only too often in this world, the total renunciation of one's aims and purposes-whether consciously willed or not.

What stood before my eyes was from the first day on a thousand times more than to become a state minister. I wanted to become the destroyer of Marxism: I will solve this task! And if I solve it, then the title of state minister would be ridiculous for me. Speech of March 27, 1924 in Munich

If you want to shine like the sun, first you have to burn like it.

Quando dico noi, intendo parlare di quelle centinaia di migliaia che hanno le nostre stesse aspirazioni

if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why? -- uncited source

You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much. That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste. If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself.

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

In meritocratic society, people are individuals before they are anything else: masters of their fates and captains of their souls.32

This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

Girls just want to have funds.

There is a ladder.The ladder is always therehanging innocentlyclose to the side of the schooner.

Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her plunge breasted and glancing through the currents, taking the light upon her at least as beautiful as any boy or helicopter, poised, still coming, her fine blades making the air wince but her cargo no promise then: delivered palpable ours.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It's the drive. It's the passion.

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Go out into the world with your passion and love for what you do, and just never give up.

Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.

Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.

Do whatever interests you the most. Passion breeds success.

Passion is the thing that won't let you sleep at night because you want to get up in the morning and go do your thing.

For me it was more than passion... it was more like an obsession to become a director.

I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because they were never naive enough or brazen enough to say, 'Let me do this.'