Quotes about Ambition
Do things you've always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus
— Oprah Winfrey
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
— Oscar Wilde
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
— Oscar Wilde
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
— Oscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
— Oscar Wilde
Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.
— Oscar Wilde
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
— Oscar Wilde
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
Who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe.
— Cormac McCarthy
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves. No matter even if it kills him? I think so. Yes. No matter what.
— Cormac McCarthy