Quotes About Ambition

Pobres semidioses novatos que conquistan imperios con la palabra y con la intención noble, pero necesitan dinero para pagar el cuarto y la comida!

I painted myself in false colors and ended up with an attic room for an empire.

El mundo es para quien nace para conquistarlo y no para quien sueña que puede conquistarlo, aunque tenga razón.

No le he pedido a la vida sino que no me pidiese nada.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

I want to be exactly like what I wanted to be and am not.

Repara bem que a obra que te propões fazer é a mais alta de todas. Sonhar é encontramo-nos. Vais ser o Colombo da tua alma. Vais buscar as suas paisagens. Cuida bem pois em que o teu rumo seja certo e não possam errar os teus instrumentos.

Every effort is a crime, because every gesture is a dead dream.

Only slight goals are worth pursuing, because only a slight goal can be entirely fulfilled.

Totul este orgoliu ?i incon?tien??. Totul e dorin?? de agita?ie,de a face lucruri,de a l?sa o urm?.

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.

el afán de alcanzar algo es menor que lo que logramos alcanzar.

I failed in everything. Since I had no ambition, perhaps I failed in nothing.

Algunos simpatizantes me han dicho que de mí se podía haber hecho un buen político. Es posible, pero como se puede hacer un orinal con porcelana de Limoges: desperdiciando un material superior.

La buena vida que tú quieres ¿es algo así como la de Kane? ¿Te conformas con el plato de lentejas de Esaú?

Gatsby creía en la luz verde, el futuro orgiástico que año tras año retrocede ante nosotros. Se nos escapa ahora, pero no importa, mañana correremos más, alargaremos

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.

and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars

Zato on i napusti flautu, ushi?ena ose?anja, maštanja - jer svaki buržuj je, u jeku svoje mladosti, makar jedan dan, makar jedan minut, verovao da je sposoban za ogromne strasti, za uzvišene pothvate. Najobi?niji raskalašnik je snevao o sultanijama; svaki beležnik nosi u sebi ostatke nekog pesnika.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

I always saw myself working for the family business.

I didn't think the family business would be big enough to have an opportunity for me.