Quotes Tagged "ambition"

Consistent action will yield satisfaction or frustration; either one or both are key ingredients for growth.

A disappointed is merely an assignment for your next appointment.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.

From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

The biggest changes in a women's nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

True friends don't come with conditions.

Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

The possibility of the dream gives strength.

There are two goddesses in your heard. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.

To give up is to stumble; giving in is noble.

No matter where life takes you or however busy it gets... Never forget to live.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies.

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.

Without struggle, success has no value.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.