Quotes About Ambition

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born.

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for.

A avea cât s? m?nânci ÅŸi s? bei,unde s? locuieÅŸti ÅŸi puÅ£in timp liber ca s? poÅ£i s? visezi,s? scrii sau s? dormi,oare ce aÅŸ putea s? le cer mai mult Zeilor,sau s? sper din partea Destinului?

Pedras no caminho? Eu guardo todas. Um dia vou construir um castelo.

I'm nothing. I'll always be nothing. I can't want to be something. But I have in me all the dreams of the world.

Lo que hay de mediocre en los sueños es que todo mundo los tiene.

Money can't buy everything, but the personal magnetism that enables a man to make lots of money can, indeed, obtain most things.

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for. O êxito está em ter êxito, e não em ter condições de êxito. Condições de palácio tem qualquer terra larga, mas onde estará o palácio se o não fizerem ali?

Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.

Algunos de nosotros se estancaron en la conquista estúpida de lo cotidiano, viles y ruines buscando el pan de cada día, y queriendo obtenerlo sin el trabajo sentido, sin la consciencia de esfuerzo, sin la nobleza de la conquista.

Algunos tienen en la vida un gran sueño y faltan a ese sueño. Otros no tienen en la vida sueño alguno, y a ese faltan también.

M-au încercat mari ambiÅ£ii ÅŸi am avut visuri nem?surate,dar tot aÅŸa au ÅŸi b?iatul de comisioane sau cus?toreasa,fiind vorba de visuri pe care ÅŸi le face toat? lumea:ne deosebeÅŸte doar forÅ£a de a le realiza sau norocul de a le vedea realizate.

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RenunÅ£area e libertate.A nu râvni nimic este putere.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

He was constitutionally condemned to suffer all kinds of anxieties, but fated to abandon them all. I never met a more extraordinary man. He had abdicated everything to which he was by nature destined, but not out of any kind of asceticism. Though naturally ambitious, he savored the pleasure of having no ambitions at all.

Compra-se a glória com desgraça.

The dream that promises us the impossible has already prevented us from achieving it, but the dream that promises us the possible interferes with real life and leaves it to life to provide a solution.

I want to tell you how the desire to achieve something far outstrips what we actually achieve. I want to recite to you the litany of despair while you listen intently. There is no work of art that could not have been more perfect. Read line by line, no poem, however great, has no single line that could not be improved upon, no episode that could not be more intense, and the whole is never so perfect that it could not be even more perfect.

For superior men, life should be a dream that spurns confrontations.

To be content with what one is given shows an attitude fit for slaves; only children ask for more; only madmen want to conquer more, for every conquest is […]

The creation of something complete and whole, be it good or bad – and if it's never entirely good, it's very often not all bad – yes, the creation of something complete seems to stir in me above all a feeling of envy. A completed thing is like a child; although imperfect like everything human, it belongs to us like our own children.

I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.