Quotes About Ambition

Chanakya also says that nothing is more important than you. So, if you need to sacrifice the whole world for your progress and protection, then do so without any hesitation.

Talent by itself does nothing but make a bit of noise.

I am going to seek a great perhaps; draw a curtain, the farce is played out.

What happened to all those leading men of the great bacchanalia? They either died of AIDS or accepted roles as supporting actors in the middlebrow drama series of hetero culture-you know, if they're to kiss, we must have sunsets in the background. Once they were proud to explore every crevice of life in the margins, now their ambition is just to get along. Color me unimpressed.

Joseph Roth ends Flight Without End with the sentence: "No one in the whole world was as superfluous as he." I beg to differ. No one in the whole world is as superfluous as I. Not Franz Tunda, Roth's protagonist, no. I am the one who has no occupation, no desire, no hope, no ambition, not even any self-love.

I had dreams, and they were not about ending up a speck. I didn't dream of becoming a star, but I thought I might have a small nonspeaking role in a grand epic, an epic with a touch of artistic credentials. I didn't dream of becoming a giant - I wasn't that delusional or arrogant - but I wanted to be more than a speck, maybe a midget.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

Dreams can never be made captive.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad that I had my flight

The newer people, of this modern age, are more eager to amass than to realize.

Travolti dal torrente dell'incertezza, i nostri sogni hanno teso le braccia Per afferrare la terra. In mattoni e pietra si irrigidiscono i loro sogni e così sono state costruite le città dell'uomo.

The greatest changes in a woman's nature are wrought by love; in a man's, by ambition.

political and the commercial man, the man of the limited purpose.

organization grows vaster, and selfishness attains supremacy.

the India devoid of all politics, the India of no nations, whose one ambition has been to know this world as of soul

I really did think at one time that I was on the verge of becoming a poet, but Providence was kind enough to save me from that disaster.

man is driven to professionalism, producing wealth for himself and others, continually

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

because it reminds them of the possibility that it is patience and endurance and loyalty – rather than ambition and desire – that bring the ultimate rewards

because it reminds them of the possibility that it is patience and endurance and loyalty – rather than ambition and desire – that bring the ultimate rewards. It is almost a tragedy, he said, that the same people who are capable of wanting the jacaranda tree and understanding its beauty are incapable of nurturing one themselves.

Tudo que sabe é que não se reconhece mais nesses contos, embora recorde a sensação explosiva de escrevê-los, algo dentro dele se adensando e fazendo uma força irresistível para nascer. Nunca mais teve essa sensação; chega a pensar que, para continuar escritor, teria de se tornar escritor novamente, quando poderia com a mesma facilidade se tornar astronauta ou fazendeiro.

A lot of people want to be writers: there was no reason to think you couldn't buy your way into it.