Quotes About Ambition

N-am nici ambi?ii ?i nici dorin?e. A fi poet nu e pentru mine o ambi?ie. e doar felul meu de a fi singur.

To belong to something – that's banal. Creeds, ideals, a woman, or profession – nothing but prisons and shackles. To be is to be free. Even ambition is a burden if it is based only on futile pride and passion. We wouldn't be so proud of it if we realized it's just a string by which we're pulled.

Tenho sonhado mais que o que Napoleão fez. Tenho apertado ao peito hipotético mais humanidades do que Cristo, Tenho feito filosofias em segredo que nenhum Kant escreveu. Mas sou, e talvez serei sempre, o da mansarda, Ainda que não more nela;

Hacer, he ahí la inteligencia verdadera. Seré lo que quiera. Pero tengo que querer lo que sea. El éxito está en tener éxito, y no en tener condiciones para el éxito.

Por que fiz eu dos sonhos a minha única vida?

Caesar aptly defined what ambition is all about when he said: 'Better to be first in the village than the second in Rome!' I'm nothing in the village and nothing in any Rome. The corner grocer is at least respected from the Rua da Assunção to the Rua da Vitória; he's the Caesar of a square city block. Me superior to him? In what, if nothingness admits neither superiority nor inferiority, nor even comparison?

Querer é não poder. Quem pôde, quis antes de poder só depois de poder. Quem quer nunca há-de poder, porque se perde em querer.

ella todo son fines y propósitos.

I gave up everything I searched for in life precisely because I had to search for it.

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. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace until it's built

Love, glory, and wealth are prisons.

Though naturally ambitious, he savored the pleasure of having no ambitions at all.

I have enough money to buy food and drink, I have somewhere to live and enough free time in which to dream, write - and sleep - what more can I ask of the gods or hope for from fate? I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is the whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.

The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.

What grieves me is that my best is no good, and that another whom I dream of, if he existed, would have done it better.

Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo

Siempre he creído que la virtud estaba en obtener lo que no se alcanza, en vivir donde no se está, en estar más vivo después de muerto que cuando se estaba vivo, en conseguir, en fin, algo difícil, absurdo, en vencer, como un obstáculo, la propia realidad del mundo.

As a man of ideals, perhaps my greatest aspiration really does not go beyond occupying this chair at this table in this café.

I'm always astonished whenever I finish anything. Astonished and depressed. My desire for perfection should prevent me from ever finishing anything; it should prevent me even from starting.

In seeking anything, we do so out of ambition, but we either fail to achieve that ambition and are the poorer, or we think we have achieved it and are merely rich madmen.

Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.

It would be interesting to be two kings at the same time: not the one soul of them both, but two distinct, kingly souls.

Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I seemed to soar, like a child on a swing, I always – like the child – had to come down to the public garden and face my defeat, with no flags to wave in battle and no sword I was strong enough to unsheath.

I've witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all that I wanted to be.