Quotes About Ambition

If we are to dream of things impossible, let's dream big.

Era d'altronde uno di quegli uomini che amano assistere alla propria vita, ritenendo impropria qualsiasi ambizione a viverla. Si sarà notato che essi osservano il loro destino nel modo in cui, i più, sono soliti osservare una giornata di pioggia.

I once knew a man who built a railway all for himself.

He took an unassuming pleasure in his possessions, and the likely prospect of becoming truly wealthy left him completely indifferent. He was, besides, one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate. It should be noted that these men observe their fate the way most men are accustomed to observe a rainy day.

Così finì per capire che si trovava in una situazione nota a molti umani, ma non per questo meno dolorosa: ciò che, solo, li fa sentire vivi, è qualcosa che però, lentamente, è destinato ad ammazzarli. I figli per i genitori, il successo per gli artisti, le montagne troppo alte per gli alpinisti. Scrivere libri, per Jasper Gwyn.

Ognuno di noi, ha bisogno di sogni per vivere.

He was, besides, one of those men who like to witness their own life, considering any ambition to live it inappropriate

Hij was overigens een van die mensen die hun eigen leven graag bijwonen, en elke ambitie om het te leven oneigenlijk achten. Het zij opgemerkt dat dat soort mensen naar hun lot kijkt op de manier waarop de meesten gewoonlijk naar een regenachtige dag kijken.

Dar se putea si ca toata acea grija de a pune granite si restrictii sa fi ascuns in el o dorinta de a ajunge dincolo de orice regula, chiar si o singura data si cu orice pret – sa ajunga in fond la capatul unui anumit drum.

C'était au reste un de ces hommes qui aiment assister à leur propre vie, considérant comme déplacée toute ambition de la vivre. On aura remarqué que ceux-là contemplent leur destin à la façon dont la plupart des autres contemplent une journée de pluie.

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

Dantes. He became Number 34.

There are no people in politics, only the ideas. There're no feelings, but only interests. In politics one does not kill a man, but removes an obstacle.

When talking about speculations, a man dreams, and money decides.

Sure of himself, convinced of his own power, certain that the laws which rule other men could not reach him, he went straight to the object he aimed at, even were this object were so elevated and so dazzling that it would have been madness for any other even to have contemplated it.

Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.

The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.

it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

That young man will go far, she said. I don't know in what direction, but he will go far.

this was a consequence of increasing prosperity, which, curiously enough, just seemed to bring out greed and selfishness.

All of us, Mma Ramotswe thought, wanted something, even if we were unable to tell anybody exactly what it was that we wanted.

like yearning to be a swan when you were demonstrably a bird of a different feather;

Mothers need to be ambitious for their children otherwise. . .well, nobody would ever learn the piano.

She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but she had never thought it would be enough for her. Yet it was.