Quotes About Ambition

In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quit subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven halfway between death and immortality

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning—— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I'm not sure what I'll do, but—well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

Amerikal?lar?n ara s?ra toprak kölesi olmay? istedikleri olur, ama köylü s?n?f?ndan olmaya kar?? hep direnmiÅŸlerdir.

single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further...And one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

He's just a man names Gatsby.

No- Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it was what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and the short-winded elations of men.

In America, no matter how poor you started out or where you came from, you could go as high as you wanted if you were willing to work for it.

He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.

That's it, she'd buy some off a dead man and she could put them in a box and take them to important meetings and bang them on the table to get her way. Maybe she'd buy four…

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Her fondest wish had come true, and here she was actually living smack-dab in the middle of what she once thought to be an impossible dream.

her most recent parts. Sometimes, she'd even show Barnaby her head shots. With the tiny tots

I can make the dream come true. If I want to. Sometimes it's better to just dream. I guess it's the same principle as saying, be careful of what you wish for because you might get it.

Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena

This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.

To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success.

I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.

I don't have enough money to be a dreamer.

O homem é do tamanho do seu sonho

A nossa alma e o céu e a terra bastam-nos.     Querer mais é perder isto, e ser infeliz.

Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill those either.

I've never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I've always belonged to what isn't where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn't mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me.